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Quote by Muriel Barbery

“Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.”

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Muriel Barbery, born on May 28, 1969, is a renowned French novelist. Her works are known for their unique perspective and profound thinking, which have won her a wide audience. more

“Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?”

Men Giving Should May Home Beautiful Easy Technology Fit Offers Stones Wings Spots Dust Prisoner Transition Toil Worms Bricks Pilgrimage Timber

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman”

Men May Reality Desire Example Ambition Cherish Solitary Madmen Extravagant Semblance

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is an "it." Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may be. If I could not breathe Zen I would probably die of spiritual asphyxiation.”

Source: Encounter: Thomas Merton & D.T. Suzuki

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