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Dana Baker
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The truth, Your Honor, is that the immigrant feels at home in guilt. How could I deny guilt and wrongdoing? I’m not talking only of the lies I had uttered when I applied for the visa, no, I’m aware at this moment only of the guilt of having
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“The hardest thing to practice is not allowing yourself to be overwhelmed by despair. When you’re overwhelmed by despair, all you can see is suffering everywhere you look. You feel as if the worst thing is happening to you. But we must remember that suffering is a kind of mud that we need in order to generate joy and happiness. Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.”
― No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
― No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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“It's surprising what you find out about yourself when there's no one around to tell you who you are.”
― Mirror Made of Rain
― Mirror Made of Rain
“Why is it, Waldemar,” I would ask him, “that when something here is so beautiful, I just want to die?” “Because it reminds you of the other place,” Waldemar would say to me. “The most beautiful place of all.”
― Homesick for Another World
― Homesick for Another World
“Nothing’s over, ever.” And this is both a blessing and a curse. The past that ties us to people in ways that hurt us also ties us to people in ways that make healing possible. Sometimes we wish that the past could be over; sometimes we are grateful that it is not. It stands in the middle, “partially completed” but not over, poised between radical otherness and utter likeness. And that is why, as Weil says, “Our attachments and our passions do not so thickly obscure our discrimination of the eternal in the past.” We can see what really matters—“the eternal,” what always matters—because of that middle distance.”
― Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
― Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
Dana’s 2025 Year in Books
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