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I dont like the introduction. If I was a kid, I would not like how the author is talking about all the faults of our generation. This would not make me feel enthused about learning something new. We learn best not with shame or guilt.

But I am appreciating the information I am learning so far. Lots and lots of it.

Spoilers

The dialogue in the Ella portions of the book are so crriinnnngeeee! And the author is not doing a good job of showing-not-telling about Ella being a lonely housewife. I love the Shams perspectives the most and I am intrigued about this leper and if he's going to infect Rumi! I am also interested to see how the relationship bw Shams and Rumi develops!!!

Growing can also feel like loss.

I see you putting your whole heart into this next stage of your life. I'm so proud of you.

Embrace the change, keep moving forward. There's a deep magic in transition. You're moving towards the light.

Today I invite all magic into my world.

There is magic everywhere. There is beauty everywhere.

You could change the world just by being who you are.

'Perfection does not exist.'
'We are beautiful beings..'
'Nothing is finished. Nothing lasts forever.'
'The Buddha himself once said I am always beginning.'
'..embrace continuous learning..everything is still to be lived'
'..maybe we start to drift apart because, like two branches of a tree, we have grown in opposite directions'
'..am I a tiny part of this imperfect garden? or is the garden part of me, my universe'

Maybe I will just spend the rest of my life rereading this pages. Maybe I will just study this book, paragraph by paragraph, forever.

I am going to save the last little bit of this book for tomorrow. Following Jesse from boyhood to adulthood was a gift. His words invoke deep empathy. I don't know him, and yet I am so proud of him.

You are the vast expanse of the sky.
You are the river running free and wild.
You are the veins of the earth, holy mycelium.
You are the light and warmth of the sun.
You are never ending.

Here's to the moments of strength and softness.
Here's to the moments that remind us we are human.
Here's to the moments of serenity and peace.

This journey is going to challenge you...

Swimming, One Day in August

It is time now, I said, for the deepening and quieting of the spirit among the flux of happenings. Something had pestered me so much I thought my heart would break. I mean, the mechanical part. I went down in the afternoon to the sea which held me, until I grew easy. About tomorrow, who knows anything. Except that it will be time, again, for the deepening and quieting of the spirit.

I love the orange meditation. You are a miracle.

I love this book and I want to read more like it, but GD this dude is horny, the cover butt should have given me an inkling. I hope there is less sex in his later years but at this rate I doubt it.

I want to keep reading this because I am enjoying it, but I have so many books from the library I need to read first, woe is me.

IT IS A SERIOUS THING TO BE ALIVE ON THIS FRESH MORNING IN THIS BROKEN WORLD

Favourite poems so far;
Night and the River
Straight Talk from Fox
Invitation (of course)
Summer Morning

And, this quote from 'The Teachers'

Owl in the black morning,
mockingbird in the burning
slants of the sunny afternoon
declare so simply to the world
everything I have tried but still
haven’t been able to put into words