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Chris is Currently Reading

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Eastern Light, Awakening to Presence in Zen, Quakerism, and Christianity

by Steve Smith

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Chris’s Quotes

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

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“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
― Michael Crichton

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Discussion of books about Zen Buddhism in general and American Zen in particular.

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