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Jim is Currently Reading

Jim is currently reading

The Fourth World of the Hopis: The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians as Preserved in Their Legends and Traditions

by Harold Courlander

bookshelves: currently-reading, american-indians, folklore, mythology

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"I have been to Maski, I have seen it and I have returned. It is out there toward the setting sun. That is where each of us will travel when the sun of his life goes down. I know now what I could not accept before, that when the dry stalk of a person's body goes into the earth, it stays there and the flesh falls away. But the breath of his life takes the trail to the west." — 3 hours, 53 min ago

Dec 26, 2025 09:04PM

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Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living by David Fideler

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Empty is that philosopher’s argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts ...more

Dombey and Son

by Charles Dickens

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The Halloween Tree

by Ray Bradbury

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Jim’s Quotes

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

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“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.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

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