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Category: Book Bits

Orhan Pamuk
Book Bits

Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand

March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 Vanessa Able

Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.

Tagged habit, hand writing, novel, Ottoman, Poetry, Practice, Turkish literature, WritingLeave a comment
Pema Chodron
Book Bits

How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now

February 11, 2023February 11, 2023 Vanessa Able

Pema Chödrön on what the Tibetan approach to living and dying can teach us about liberation in the present moment.

Tagged bardos, Buddhism, Death, groundlessness, illusion, impermanence, liberation, loss, Tibetan buddhismLeave a comment
Barbara Brown Taylor
Book Bits

The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 Vanessa Able

Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.

Tagged episcopal, journey, labyrinth, maze, no destination, path, Spiritual Practice, walking, walking meditationLeave a comment
David Hinton
Book Bits

What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023 Vanessa Able

David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.

Tagged Chinese philosophy, crisis, earth, earth mother, ecology, environment, Great Vanishing, Original Nature, separation, Sixth Extinction, taosim, wild mindLeave a comment
Virginia Woolf
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‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill

December 27, 2022December 27, 2022 Vanessa Able

Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.

Tagged Body, health, illness, interruption, language, Literature, Mind, perception, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Alan Watts
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Life Includes All Opposites – Alan Watts on the Oneness of the Tao

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 Vanessa Able

The psychology of acceptance and the understanding 'that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe.'

Tagged acceptance, Chinese Zen, oneness, Taoism, The Tao, Zen2 Comments
Book Bits

The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 Vanessa Able

Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.

Tagged Buddhism, change, contemplation, dark, Darkness, Dreams, Emptiness, liminal space, nature, night, transformationLeave a comment
Book Bits

‘An Appropriate Response’: Christian Dillo on the Nature of Buddhist Wisdom

October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Vanessa Able

What is wisdom? How can what we know get in the way of true wisdom? How can we express wisdom in a chaotic and unpredictable world?

Tagged appropriate response, Buddhism, i don't know, negative space, not-knowing, presence, Wisdom, ZenLeave a comment
May Sarton
Book Bits

Like Silt in a Flowing Stream – May Sarton on Solitude and Clutter

May 31, 2022May 31, 2022 Vanessa Able

May Sarton's Journal of a Solitude is the upshot of a journey into herself, into simplification and self-examination.

Tagged Journal, Loneliness, retreat, Solitude, Writing1 Comment
E.E. Cummings
Book Bits

E.E. Cummings – Let It Go—The

May 27, 2022May 31, 2022 Vanessa Able

E.E. Cummings reflects on the necessity of clearing, of letting go of the things we cling to, in order to make way for love.

Tagged Advice, clearing, letting go, love, Poetry1 Comment

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Orhan Pamuk
    Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand
    Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
  • Pema Chodron
    How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
    Pema Chödrön on what the Tibetan approach to living and dying can teach us about liberation in the present moment.
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    Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.
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    ‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill
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