“am in revolt against the recent fashion of attaching so much weight to political ideology. For the last fifty years, we have paid too much attention to political differences, just as we used to pay too much attention to religious differences.”
― While Still We Live
― While Still We Live
“The postures are both a metaphor and a means for that process. They are tools for creating a connection between the imagination and the physical world. Realizing this connection—this union between body and mind—could be called yoga.”
― Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
― Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
“you’re certain, then, that no human affection can outlast a five-year absence?” “It can, undoubtedly,” replied the Chinese, “but only as a fragrance whose melancholy we may enjoy.”
― Lost Horizon: A Novel of Shangri-La
― Lost Horizon: A Novel of Shangri-La
“He was not much of a nature-worshipper, but he perceived that nature here was certainly at her best and liveliest. He gave her, as it were, full marks and a nod of approval, feeling that she would do very nicely as a background to his satisfying emotions”
― The Definitive James Hilton Collection
― The Definitive James Hilton Collection
“But now I’m beginning to care again—a little—and it hurts—it’s really more convenient not to have any hopes and fears.”
― The Definitive James Hilton Collection
― The Definitive James Hilton Collection
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