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“It is not the planets and stars, the elements and winds, or even the existence of life itself that is the miracle that demands our attention. It is consciousness. It is the mere fact of being, the ability to say, “I.” Consciousness is an indisputable fact, the greatest miracle of all, and all the sights and sounds of the world are merely side effects.”

“People who live through reaction to the world about them are the victims of every change in their environments, now happy, now sad, now victorious, now defeated, affected but never affecting.”

Very thought provoking. A deep dive into what romantic love is and what a soulmate might look like. Great premise, great execution so far.

“I’m not that lion battling an enemy. Confronting myself keeps me busy enough.”

“I said it again. And again. ‘The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.’ I’m saying it right now. I’ve never stopped saying it.”

“It’s the rookies who laugh only when they win.”

“I stir up laughter even in those who fear joy.”

“You who pour the wine, put the cup of oneness in my hand and let me drink from it until I can’t imagine separation.” 💜

Pretty good so far.

“If you can’t pray a real prayer, pray hypocritically, full of doubt and dry-mouth. God accepts counterfeit money, as though it were real!”

"Don't pray to be healed, or look for evidence of 'some other world.' You are the soul and medicine for what wounds the soul."

I just randomly came across this book yesterday at the library, and I am in love!

“Work in the invisible world, at least, as hard as you do in the visible. Be a companion with the prophets, invisibly, so that no one knows.”

“Wars have the power to turn graceful and cultured people into monsters.”

“I am giving you pointers to show you how you can bring the dimension of the Unmanifested into your life. We are not trying to understand it. There is nothing to understand.”

Set in Vietnam, very good so far.

I’m not sure how I like this one. It’s not holding my interest.

Creepy

“She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn’t.) She walked through another gate. What was a gate anyway? A doorway, she thought. A portal. The possibility of a different world. The possibility that you might walk through the door and reinvent yourself as something better than you had been before.”

“…he wished he could open up his brain and delete the bad code. Unfortunately, the human brain is every bit as closed a system as a Mac.”

“The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don’t you?”

Fingers crossed that this will be a good one.🤞

Almost finished. I've enjoyed Ivy's chapters a lot more than her mother Dana's chapters. It kinda dragged a bit in the middle. So far it hasn't been my favorite, but better than a lot of other books I've read recently.