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Consolations II: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

by David Whyte (Goodreads Author)

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"Love takes us deeper while subverting what we imagined deeper meant. Love beckons to begin with and then in a quick change of mood, always begins to frighten. Love seems to push us away, but the step toward love or the step away from love is always ...more "

Sep 17, 2026 07:59PM · see review

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The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

by Pema Chödrön

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Taka’s Quotes

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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“Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside”
― Rainer Rilke

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