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I was turned on to this anthology by Adina.I'm reading it out of order and keeping notes here.
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“Life is a fragile hybrid throbbing, at each instant, between being and nothingness.”
― The Book is a Ghost: Thoughts and Paroxysms for Going Beyond
― The Book is a Ghost: Thoughts and Paroxysms for Going Beyond
“To write of the self is to write in the shape of a wound that never stops opening.”
― Under the Sign of the Labyrinth
― Under the Sign of the Labyrinth
“We are all someone's monster.”
― Six of Crows
― Six of Crows
“My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. ‘Listen,’ he said, ‘life and no escape.”
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
“Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.”
― The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
― The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
Reading Classics, Chronologically Through the Ages
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This group began with a book called The Well-Educated Mind (TWEM) by Susan Wise Bauer, which is a wonderful guide to “The Great Books.” TWEM presents ...more
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