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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
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and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
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You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―
Jess’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jess’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
270 books
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45 friends
3 books
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70 friends
492 books
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23 friends
159 books
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54 friends
1,291 books
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45 friends
657 books
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51 friends
909 books
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5,001 friends
18 books
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28 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Self help, Spirituality, and Travel
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