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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.
“Nothing is so small
that you cannot
cut it in half”
―
that you cannot
cut it in half”
―
“The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort”
―
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort”
―
“Joy is our
native condition
Let go all non-joy
and there is joy”
―
native condition
Let go all non-joy
and there is joy”
―
“It was hard not to ask why me, but he had begun to grasp the difficult truth that a thing could have a cause but that was not the same as having a purpose. Even if you could work out how a certain thing had come about—even if you answered the how question—you would be no closer to solving the why.”
― Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
― Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“God is just a name for our wonder.”
― The Blind Man's Garden
― The Blind Man's Garden
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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