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I could go on without many things in life, but books are not one of those things. Reading and learning, art and stories somehow ended up becoming a core part of me. So here’s to the love for reading, knowing and growing a little bit every day. <3

“Such ecstasy, such transport, such transcendence, such yearning to go home again! Who does not hunger, with Faust, for example, for such a transcendent encounter with life? Who would not wish to say, with Hölderlin, “Once I lived like the gods, and no more is needed.”

Nothing has greater power over our lives than the hint, the promise, the intimation of the recovery of Eden through that Magical Other.”

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Okay I’m loving this

It's that rare and brilliant joy of reading a Bronte sister again.

I'm just at a loss of words to describe the potential of what's written here...
Almost all the problems I or all young people deal struggle with, are here with the why's and the what-to-dos.
Such a revolutionary book, going to give a copy to everybody I can.

Initially, I didn't like it. But after giving it enough time, it's really making me rethink so much for good. A very refreshing philosophy required to purge us from the lesser social programming we have picked up. Everybody living in the rut of modern life and modern problems should read this, I think.

The Trees (Philip Larkin)

The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too,
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.
Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh,

from You’ll Never Walk Alone
(by Oscar Hammerstein II)

Walk on through the wind,
Walk on through the rain,
Though your dreams be tossed and blown.
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone.
You’ll never walk alone.

The Way It Is (William Stafford)

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn’t change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can’t get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.
You don’t ever let go of the thread

All That is Gold Does Not Glitter
by J. R. R. Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

I love seeing the transformation that happens in me after I read life-altering, perspective-shifting, insight-giving non fiction books. Here for it.

The way the plovers cry goodbye.
The way the dead fox keeps on looking down the hill with open eye.
The way the leaves fall, and then there’s the long wait.
The way someone says we must never meet again.
The way mold spots the cake,
The way sourness overtakes the cream.
The way the river water rushes by, never to return.
The way the days go by, never to return.
The way somebody comes back, but only in a dream.

"मुझे खर्ची में पूरा एक दिन, हर रोज़ मिलता है
मगर हर रोज़ कोइ छीन लेता है,
झपट लेता है अण्टी से!

कभी खीसे से गिर पढ़ता है तो गिरने की
आहट भी नहीं होती,
खरे दिन को भी मैं खोटा समझ के भूल जाता हूं!

गिरेबान से पकड़ के मांगने वाले भी मिलते हैं
“तेरी गुज़री हुई पुश्तों का कर्ज़ा है,
तुझे किश्तें चुकानी हैं–”

बड़ी हसरत है पूरा एक दिन, इक बार मैं
अपने लिये रख लूं

तुम्हारे साथ पूरा एक दिन, बस खर्च करने कि तमन्ना है!"

सलाखों के पीछे पड़े इंकलाबी की आंखों में भी
राख उतरने लगी है |
दहकता हुआ कोयला देर तक जब न फूका गया हो,
तो शोले की आंखें में भी
मोती की सफेदी उतर आती है!

"सलाहों के पीछे पड़े इंकलाबी की आंखों में भी
राख उतरने लगी है |
दहकता हुआ कोयला डर तक जब न फुंका गया हो,
तो शोले की आंखें मुझे भी
मोती की सफेदी उतरती है!"