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p.108 Confucius says: "Many seek a happiness higher than the human being; others seek one lower. But happiness is the same height as the human being."

زندگی کردن از طریق فکر کردن
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فکر کردن از طریق زندگی کردن

Maybe it's because I'm a woman, and therefore not even human (according to this book) - but I am ready to either throw myself or this book into the ocean. I'm finishing this book out of spite at this point. My womanly emotions are running wild and I am apparently responsible for all of the evil in the world but too innocent to understand the intricacies of humanity.

Everyday things that had lost their luster regained the brightness they had possessed the moment they emerged from God's hands. Water, women, stars, and bread returned to their primordial, mysterious source; the devine wheel regained its rotational momentum in the sky.

p.56
I joined him in feeling entirely happy in my motionless silence, surrendering myself to the uncertain, rose-lit suggestions of dawn. The whole of existence in these magical instances seems featherlight, the earth as uncongealed and fluffed out as a cloud that continually alters its shape and is remodeled by every puff of wind.