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“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”

“For the most of us the degree of passive absorption of ch’i from our surroundings, be they home or work, is the factor governing our energy and lucidity level.”
Pg 18

When did you start to measure this rescue distance?
It’s something I inherited from my mother. “I want you close,” she’d say to me. “Let’s stay within rescue distance.” (Page 55)

“To be spiritual awakened is also to be mentally and physically awakened. The sluggard and the self-indulgent can have no knowledge of Truth. He who, possessed of health and strength, wastes the calm, precious hours of the silent morning in drowsy indulgence is totally unfit to climb the heavenly heights.”

“The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”

“No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And it’s expressions are political not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grown in us year by year.”

“I tried to, but my efforts took the form of self consciously seeing a Gethenian first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those categories so irrelevant to his nature and so essential to my own.”

“Finally, when we’re done with if, we may find- if it’s a good novel- that we’re a bit different from what we were before we read if, that we have been changed a little, as if having met a new face, crossed a street we never crossed before. But it’s very hard to say just what we learned, how we were charged”

Page: XXII

“I’m merely observing, in the particular, devious, and thought-experimental manner proper to science fiction, that if you look at us at Cetus off tunes of the day until cherish weathers, we already are. I am not predicting, or prescribing. I am describing.”
Page: XXI

“All evil is corrective and remedial, and is therefore not permanent. It is rooted in ignorance, ignorance of the true nature and relation of things, and so long as we remain in that state of ignorance, we remain subject to evil.”

I found one Law, and the Law of Love; one Life, the Life of adjustment to that law; one Truth, the truth of a conquered mind and a quiet and obedient heart.”

“A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts , and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”

“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires,- and circumstances are means by which the soul receives its own.”

“As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passed away and give place to other circumstances.”

“Man’s mind may be like a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild: but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”

“Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his “household”. When he begins to reflect upon his condition, and to search diligently for the law upon which his being is established, he then becomes the wise master, directing his thoughts to fruitful issues.”

Wonderful book so far. I had no idea what to expect as I have only heard people say this is a must read, not necessarily what it was about. A used version was at my local book store so I grabbed her and got to reading.
Perfect example so far of how a “leader” of some sorts are both needed as well as inevitable. The analogy’s are absolutely perfect. Easy read and can’t wait to finish.

“The fact of this mental illness was in the open now, but the disease itself had roots still as deeply hidden as the white core of a volcano whose slopes are camouflaged in wooden green. Somewhere, even under the volcano itself, was the buried seed of will and strength.”

What is your all time favorite book you’ve read so far?
Mine is “House of Leaves” by Mark Z. Danielewski 🍃

I’m finally back and active!!! I have so many books I want to read and review for you guys and I can’t wait to hear your thoughts. I hope you have been evolving more than ever and treating yourself kindly🦋
Are you reading any current books??

Be kind. Accept the praise that you deserve.

“And third, that your sword would be waiting for you at the right time, on the right day, at some point on the road that you will have to travel.”

“The instability of the emotions is a quality we should wish to keep. It is the essence of the human character and the source of our creativity— we must learn to behave, Butler is never even think of domesticating human nature.”

“So does free will exist? Yes, if not in ultimate reality then at least in the operational sense necessary for sanity and thereby for the perpetuation of the human species.”

“So does free will exist? Yes, if not in ultimate reality then at least in the operational sense necessary for sanity and thereby for the perpetuation of the human species.”

“I confess before thee, that I am a debtor to thee for the gracious talker of thy gift and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it (as I thought) to exchangers, where it might have made best profit; but misspent it in things for which I was least fit; so that I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage.”

“I confess before thee, that I am a debtor to thee for the gracious talker of thy gift and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it (as I thought) to exchangers, where it might have made best profit; but misspent it in things for which I was least fit; so that I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage.”