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This is a wonderful book. Shearer has done an amazing job researching both Shankara's life and many teachings and brilliantly weaves them into a smooth tapestry that is both beautiful and inspiring. It is a long book, and so far, about a quarter of t
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Poetry is a solo art form: most lyrics need to leave room for, and craft an affinity with, music – just as lines in a screenplay must be sparse enough to allow for an actor’s interpretation.
“Faith that is allergic to questioning is just fundamentalist blind dogma.”
― Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
― Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
“It was originally intended to be a mildly nostalgic account of the natural history of the island,”
― The Corfu Trilogy
― The Corfu Trilogy
“A lot of our culture and its entertainments encourage us to run away from the reality of the aliveness of our life.”
― Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
― Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
“It seems reasonable that knowledge is more analytical and lends itself more easily to conceptualization while wisdom may be more intuitive.”
― Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception
― Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception
“Mortality is inscribed in your cellular structure, and you say you’re not ill?”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
Elements of Fiction
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It was John Gardner—legendary teacher of the craft—who said that the elements of fiction, like the words in a language, are finite. I set about to ve ...more
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