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This explains the fact that we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.
“The Wanderer
What is she like?
I was told—
she is a
melancholy soul.
She is like
the sun to the night;
a momentary gold.
A star when dimmed
by dawning light;
the flicker of
a candle blown.
A lonely kite
lost in flight—
someone once
had flown.”
― Love & Misadventure
What is she like?
I was told—
she is a
melancholy soul.
She is like
the sun to the night;
a momentary gold.
A star when dimmed
by dawning light;
the flicker of
a candle blown.
A lonely kite
lost in flight—
someone once
had flown.”
― Love & Misadventure
“What doth it profit a man to gain the whole world if he suffer the loss of his immortal soul?”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.”
― Women in Love
― Women in Love
“For the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to hopeless staleness, to a drab grey lit only by will-o’-the-wisps.”
― Symbols of Transformation
― Symbols of Transformation
“Some of us are drawn to mountains the way the moon draws the tide. Both the great forests and the mountains live in my bones. They have taught me, humbled me, purified me and changed me.”
― The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom
― The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom
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