No one dies before his time. The time you leave behind was no more yours than that which passed before your birth...wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
(from "That to philosophize is to learn to die", Book I, Essay 20)
“Only someone who longs to be no one could savor the deprivations of a decluttered mind, a room bereft of furniture or ornament.”
I keep thinking about my study of Buddhism (and Hinduism) in college, as part of my Religious Studies major. Admittedly, these were survey courses and I feel like I only grazed the surface. But I keep remembering my initial, wholesale rejection of Buddhism — and my professor‘s response. 👇🏻
June #storygraph book report, right on track for 52 books this year!
#camplitsy25 pick Wild Dark Shore and a Murderbot novel take first place!
I think that‘s the last of the Murderbot novels. I hope Martha Wells‘ health improves and that she can possibly write more, I‘m obsessed with the series.
I am just reading the Preface & this pertinent quote popped out at me. #foodforthought #14books14weeks
...let us learn to meet [death] steadfastly and combat it...to begin to strip it of its greatest advantage against us...let us rid it of its strangeness, come to know it, get used to it...and let us never allow ourselves to be so carried away by pleasure that we do not sometimes remember in how many ways this happiness of ours is a prey to death...it is uncertain where death awaits us; let us await it everywhere.
pickIt seemed appropriate to read this collection of essays following Native Son. Some are amazing. The rest are very good. Don‘t go thinking this is a dated read, despite its being published in 1955. It‘s more pertinent than ever if you want to see how the dream of Civil Rights in America is not complete (nor may it ever be). “This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.”
I steal another
glimpse of you — don‘t you know I‘m
dying to taste you?
#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #love #romance
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pickI adore Kingsolver‘s writing! And I love the essay style that brings so depth to ordinary, sometimes mundane things. It‘s well worth the read!
pickI feel lucky to be alive at the same time as this delightful human being. David Sedaris is such a breath of fresh air and a relief from taking everything so seriously all of the time. I adore people like him, who are amused and insightful about any event no matter how seemingly ordinary, adding a decadent richness to everyday life.
pick“…one must never, in one‘s own life, accept these injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one‘s strength.”
