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Birth is but the beginning of a trajectory to death; for all their love, parents cannot halt it and in a sense have “given us to death” merely by giving us birth.
“There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.”
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“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
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“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
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“Continually trying to look on the bright side interferes with our finding the wisdom that lies in the fruitful darkness. Continually striving upward toward the light means we never grow downward into our own feet, never become firmly rooted on the earth, never explore the darkness within and around us, a darkness without whose existence the light would have no meaning.”
― The Fasting Path: For Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical Healing and Renewal
― The Fasting Path: For Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical Healing and Renewal
Kathi’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kathi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
485 books
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70 friends
43 books
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148 friends
497 books
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66 friends
271 books
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137 friends
108 books
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19 friends
5 books
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106 friends
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93 friends
4 books
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63 friends
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