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Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements

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“At the surface of our life we are conscious of the many pressing problems that beset us, the conflicts, the anxieties, the angers, the decisions that we feel we must urgently make. But one reason that theIntensive Journal method has been effective for many people is that it practices an indirect approach to slowing our life problems. Rather than move head-on to encounter problems in the external form in which they appear in our lives, we step back and move inward to meet them at a deeper level.”

“Are you troubled?" Moussa asked, his voice gentle with concern. "No," she said. "I was only thinking of my mar- riage." It was true, so she didn't understand why she hated herself instantly for saying it. She thought Moussa's head jerked a little at the words. After that he was uncharacteristically quiet and for the first time in nearly four days they rode in a sad unnatural silence that was as suffocating as the desert heat. Suddenly each stride of the camel seemed interminable, and Daia didn't know what to do. One part of her wanted journey to end quickly, wanted to arrive in Abalessa where all the confusion might end. The rest of her, most of her, wanted their journey to last forever.”

“The more you try to please your emotional whims, the more insane you will get. Emotions are to be understood and tamed, not to rule; if you completely followed all of your emotions all the time, you'd be incapable of functioning. However, we now live in a society based off emotion, which is very clearly self-evident if you just look outside. [...] In our society we have this ideal of fairness, of giving 50/50 to both sides, and the reality though is that being fair is saying the truth, and we don't actually follow this ideal”