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| 1401ec5 | Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot bear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. William Butler Yeats "The Second Coming" " | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 3d085f9 | It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. When I decided to go to Alaska that April, like Chris McCandless, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the e.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| ff36d18 | I have to admit, the terrorists were following their prophet," Dan says. "They were willing to do essentially what I did. I see the parallel. But the difference between those guys and me is, they were following a false prophet, and I'm not. "I believe I'm a good person," Dan insists. "I've never done anything intentionally wrong. I never have." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 124ee90 | On the morning of the July 24, Pioneer Day, Dan got up, prayed, and felt prompted by the Lord to saw the barrel and stock off a 12-gauge, pump-action shotgun that he had been storing at his mother's house. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| b8c54fe | Devout Buddhists believe in sonam--an accounting of righteous deeds that, when large enough, enables one to escape the cycle of birth and rebirth and transcend forever this world of pain and suffering. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 18aab46 | He must have been very brave and very strong, at the end, not to do himself in. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 168e75c | How can a society actively promote religious faith on one hand and condemn a man for zealously adhering to his faith on the other? | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 6b608ae | Both revelation and delusion are attempts at the solution of problems. Artists and scientists realize that no solution is ever final, but that each new creative step points the way to the next artistic or scientific problem. In contrast, those who embrace religious revelations and delusional systems tend to see them as unshakeable and permanent. . . . Religious faith is an answer to the problem of life. . . . The majority of mankind want or.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 43f5b42 | When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you | Jon Krakauer | ||
| bb1af21 | For years he had complained that political leaders were disregarding their sworn duty to safeguard the Mormons' constitutionally guaranteed freedom to worship without being subjected to harassment, and worse, at the hands of the religious majority. Yet in both word and deed, Joseph repeatedly demonstrated that he himself had little respect for the religious views of non-Mormons, and was unlikely to respect the constitutional rights of other.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 73f4ae7 | And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few more modest trusts: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why - which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 8896b03 | I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all o.. | change-your-life christopher-mccandless life | Jon Krakauer | |
| 7d034ee | Everett was strange," Sleight concedes. "Kind of different. But him and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| ec98a45 | Using data gathered in 2011, the CDC study estimated that across all age groups, 19.3 percent of American women "have been raped in their lifetimes" and that 1.6 percent of American women--nearly two and a half million individuals--"reported that they were raped in the 12 months preceding the survey." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 2962706 | I came to understand that I had baffled and infuriated my father at least as much as he had baffled and infuriated me. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 5d5b797 | how difficult it is for those of us preoccupied with the humdrum concerns of adulthood to recall how forcefully we were once buffeted by the passions and longings of youth . . . 'The older person does not realize the soul-flights of the adolescent...' (pg. 185) | Jon Krakauer | ||
| e91fc5a | Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience. To symbolize the complete severance from his previous life, he even adopted a new name. No longer would he answer to Chris McCandless; he was now Alexander Such ertramp, master of his own destiny. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| dcc4982 | The plain truth is that I knew better but went to Everest anyway. And in doing so I was a party to the death of good people, which is something that is apt to remain on my conscience for a very long time. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 167f549 | The LDS Church has annual revenues estimated at more than $6 billion, and it is currently the largest employer in the state of Utah. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f24ba8a | I began my adult life with the hypothesis that it would be possible to become a Stone Age native. For over 30 years, I programmed and conditioned myself to this end. In the last 10 of it, I would say I realistically experienced the physical, mental, and emotional reality of the Stone Age. But to borrow a Buddhist phrase, eventually came a setting face-to-face with pure reality. I learned that it is not possible for human beings as we know t.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 9dbff99 | Mortenson was merely selling what the public was eager to buy. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 2b67d93 | S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE. I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO JOKE. IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE REMAIN TO SAVE ME. I AM OUT COLLECTING BERRIES CLOSE BY AND SHALL RETURN THIS EVENING. THANK YOU, CHRIS MCCANDLESS. AUGUST? | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 0ed1743 | Said his name was Alex. And he was big-time hungry. Hungry, hungry, hungry. But real happy. Said he'd been surviving on edible plants he identified from the book. Like he was real proud of it. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 7c27916 | In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team. The consequences of a poorly tied knot, a stumble, a dislodged rock, or some other careless deed are as likely to be felt by the perpetrator's colleagues as the perpetrator. Hence it's not surprising that climbers are typically wary of joining forces with those whose bona fides are unknown to them. But | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 3ce8de3 | McCandless was stirred by the austerity of the landscape, by its saline beauty. The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it, in sere geology and clean slant of light. | race-issues | Jon Krakauer | |
| 5a4aa60 | The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive. | humanity into-the-wild | Jon Krakauer | |
| 5f04ddb | In the adversarial system, it's more important to follow legal procedure than to speak the truth. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| ef5dbc3 | Much of the food he put on the table came from hunting--despite the fact that he was uncomfortable killing animals. "My dad cried every time he shot a deer," Billie says, 'but we had to eat, so he did it." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 5a35979 | I'm going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f8f10e9 | Yes,' she whispered. 'He was more worried about the book than me. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 3ba6ff6 | Relax, let go, allow, and recognize that some of your desires are about how you think your world should be, rather than how it is in that moment. Become an astute observer . . . judge less and listen more. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| d62d675 | It says, "Dear Wayne: The sun is shining behind the clouds." | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| b535902 | Soren Kierkegaard, the famed Danish theologian, once put it, "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays." | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| f74d306 | Remove all unloving thoughts from your mind, and practice kindness in all of your thoughts, words, and actions. Cultivate | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 4dcceec | every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 2626f85 | Love vanquishes all attackers, it is impregnable in defense. When heaven wants to protect someone, does it send an army? No, it protects him with love. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| d810077 | Our purpose in life isn't to arrive at a destination where we find inspiration, just as the purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing - and of life - is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where we are when the music ends. | life purpose | Wayne W. Dyer | |
| 213869b | The difference between saints and the rest of us isn't that they have loving, pure beliefs and we don't; rather, they function solely from their essence, | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 1698011 | Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 444c06b | In fact, some people who rate very high marks on the ego-based indexes of success are the ones I find most difficult to be around--and totally uninspiring | indexes-of-success uninspiring | Wayne W. Dyer | |
| ed3bdf4 | Do the Tao Now Spend an hour, a day, a week, or a month practicing not giving unsolicited advice. Stop yourself for an instant and call upon your silent knowing. Ask a question, rather than giving advice or citing an example from your life, and then just listen to yourself and the other person. As Lao-tzu would like you to know, that's "the highest state of man." | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 1bee3f7 | How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours." - Wayne W. Dyer" | Nikki Sex | ||
| 1bb19f5 | Living by being instead of trying | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 605aa31 | Give thanks for everything that you are and everything that you have--that's the first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality. | Wayne W. Dyer |