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Best Reads 2013. VI: Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
This book, indeed Rumi generally, has been a revelation to me. As I have said elsewhere, I had come across him several times in the writings of Richard Rohr and others, but it was only when a woman I...
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Playing a game with oneself?
ne of my principles for the content of this blog to offer positive, life-affirming thoughts and perspectives. It is no coincidence, therefore, that there is much on love and hope in these posts. Having...
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Best Reads 2013. VII: Anne Carson, Red Doc>
nne Carson. Red Doc>. The sequel to Autobiography of Red. It doesn’t often happen that I preorder books that have not yet been published. This one I ordered as soon as I knew it was coming out....
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Under the seams runs the pain
eryon struggles on in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, grieving for the devastating loss of a lover. But we also learn about other aspects of his life. Like Carson herself (there are strong...
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Secret places inside this violent world
Time for some more of Rumi’s poetry, again in the translation of Coleman Barks, from Bridge to the Soul: Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart. I am sure I have said this before, but Rumi...
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On love, maturity, emotions, living in the present, problems, grief and stoicism
Here are some more thoughts from Alain de Botton’s book On Love. First of all, on falling in love: Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole,...
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A proof of love
ulian Barnes’s latest book, Levels of Life, offers some intriguing observations about the beginnings of ballooning and photography. But that shouldn’t fool anyone: the book is essentially about grief,...
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I have no enemies
Some thoughts on love, fear and violence from Living without Enemies: Being Present in the Midst of Violence, a book that I am enjoying more and more: Living beyond fear … means hearing God say, ‘Love,...
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Lament
Lament means ceasing to try to protect God from our anger, disillusionment and despair. Lament … searches out the deepest places in the heart and exposes them to the presence of God. It is a whole-body...
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Best Reads 2013. VII: Anne Carson, Red Doc>
nne Carson. Red Doc>. The sequel to Autobiography of Red. It doesn’t often happen that I preorder books that have not yet been published. This one I ordered as soon as I knew it was coming out....
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Under the seams runs the pain
eryon struggles on in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, grieving for the devastating loss of a lover. But we also learn about other aspects of his life. Like Carson herself (there are strong...
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