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“Gradually, moment by moment, you may have come to realize that although you can’t stop the unsettling thoughts from arising in your mind, you can stop what happens next. You can stop the vicious circle from feeding off itself.”
― Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
― Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
“I can’t tolerate cell phones,” I say. “For health reasons.” “Yech,” he grunts. “Those things ruined the country. I don’t know how, but they convinced the people that they should spend their whole lives inside a screen the size of a playing card. I’d take a jail cell over that bullshit any time.”
― Sleepwalk
― Sleepwalk
“How people felt about one another was always in the voice. In the way they talked to one another when they thought they were alone.”
― The New Wilderness
― The New Wilderness
“For all we know This may only be a dream An old Nina Simone song.”
― Sleepwalk
― Sleepwalk
“Because sadness is the truest emotion,” Greta says. “Happiness isn’t to be trusted. It’s a bald-faced liar. But the truth of your sadness enriches every other thing inside you, especially your joy. You shouldn’t be afraid to go to the place that makes you sad, Molly Hook. The more you go to that dark place inside you, the lighter it gets. You go there enough times, you realize that dark place is actually your sacred place. That place is all of you and the tears you take from that place are just the darkness leaking out, precious drop by precious drop. You following me?”
― All Our Shimmering Skies
― All Our Shimmering Skies
Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
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