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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 077ecb7 | How easily Caleb had taken the teachings of his youth--the many gods, the animate spirit world--and simply recast them in terms of our teaching. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 71200e8 | Todos los hombres pasan por estas dificultades. Para el hombre medio es este el punto en que las exigencias de su propia vida entran en colision dramatica con las circunstancias, el punto en que tiene que luchar mas duramente por alcanzar el camino que conduce hacia adelante. Muchos viven tal morir y renacer, que es nuestro destino, solo en ese momento de su vida en que el mundo infantil se resquebraja y se derrumba lentamente, cuando todo .. | madurez vida | Hermann Hesse | |
| 7216312 | His task was to survive and endure through the harsh winter months, winnowing his soul until it could cross to the spirit world. There, he would undertake the search for his guide, a god embodied in some kind of beast or bird, who would protect him throughout his life. His spirit guide would enlighten his mind and guide his steps in myriad ways, until the end of his life. In those cold woods, he would learn his destiny. He said that if the .. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 89c6fd2 | You were willing. See here, Kamala: When you throw a stone into water, it falls quickly by the fastest route to the bottom of the pond. This is the way it is when Siddhartha has an aim, an intention. Siddhartha does nothing--he waits, he thinks, he fasts--but he passes through the things of the world like the stone through the water, without bestirring himself. He is drawn forward and he lets himself fall. His goal draws him to it, for he l.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 6850812 | make] Sundays out of weekdays. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 53112d2 | Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been raped. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 048701a | Perhaps it was pride, merely, to seek these souls that God had chosen to abandon. Perhaps it was in itself a sin.... | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 0eea61c | I am curious to see all the same just how much a man can endure. If the limit of what is bearable is reached, I have only to open the door to escape. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| bde8438 | The realization of what wisdom actually was slowly blossomed and ripened in Siddhartha--and he discovered what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness. Slowly this blossomed in him, was reflected back at him from Vasudeva's old, childlike face: harmony, knowledge of th.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 71efe07 | In short, his aim is to make a home for himself between two extremes in a temperate zone without violent storms and tempests; and in this he succeeds though it be at the cost of that intensity of life and feeling which an extreme life affords. A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| bef974b | Todos quitan, todos dan: esa es la vida | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 40b1e38 | En depit de toutes les profondes differences de leurs natures, tous deux avaient beaucoup appris l'un de l'autre; entre eux, a cote de la langue de la raison, il s'etait peu a peu forme un parler de l'ame, un langage de signes, de meme que, entre deux agglomerations, il y a bien une route sur laquelle circulent les voitures et les cavaliers, mais a cote se tracent beaucoup de petites sentes, de chemins de traverse, de sentiers detournes; ch.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 795833f | Both, the thoughts as well as the senses, were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them, | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 3124986 | It was wonderful to be living in a house in a reign of peace, order, tranquility, duty and good conscience, forgiveness and love--but it was no less wonderful to know there was the other, the loud and shrill, sullen and violent world from which you could dart back to your mother in one leap. | tranquility | Hermann Hesse | |
| bb191e7 | The practice of mutilating women's genitals in Eritrea predated the arrival of both religions, and for hundreds of years neither faith had questioned it. The | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 2e6da1b | My mother, my grandmother and my great-grandmother all told me it was right, that without it a woman wouldn't be able to control herself, that she would end up a prostitute," said Aset, a beautiful twenty-eight-year-old whose own genitals had been mutilated when she was about seven years old." | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| cbf1170 | Other ayatollahs considered the female voice arousing and barred women from speaking in mixed gatherings unless they first put a stone in their mouths to distort the sound. Khomeini, | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| a77f41e | So, you are happy to be a pigeon?" "Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at the expense of the other creatures that dwell in the desert." | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 625fced | Women, on the other hand, were easy targets. Any time things started to go wrong in the Middle East, women suffered for it first. A fundamentalist revolution couldn't instantly fix a national economy, but it could order women into the veil. If | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 6e89f8a | Australians say 'pissed off.' Pissed means drunk. Piss is alcohol. To take the piss--that means to send someone up, make fun of them. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 1e1b398 | It is the habit of our species to despoil all we touch. Yet few see it so. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| e771bee | It's too late," she said, her voice trembling. "You are not the beautiful innocent vagabond walking toward me under the dogwood blossoms, with his trunks and his head full of worthless notions. And I am not the beloved, cherished ladies' maid..." | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| fb5eb76 | But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 3d56616 | There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men. --Heinrich Heine | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 125a9fa | From "Caleb's Crossing"--This is an excellent thought about family though it doesn't apply to me. I am lucky in my brothers. "Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul to whom fate had shackled me." | eileen-granfors family | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 97d1995 | This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| f90e118 | It has to do with an intuition about the past. By linking research and imagination, sometimes I can think myself into the heads of the people who made the book. I can figure out who they were, or how they worked. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| fb315d6 | I do not ask for your abosolution. I simply ask you to see that there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is get up, and go on with the life that is set in front of us, and try to so the good of which our hands are capable for the people who come in our way. That, at least, has been my path | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| d3cccfc | And yet what manner of man would I be, who has so much to say in the contest of words, if now I shirked this contest of blood? | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| b6dc458 | His spirit is like a guttering candle | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 701f6e4 | I cannot say that I have faith anymore. Hope, perhaps. We have agreed that it will do for now. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 0235d73 | I had little wish to recall the callow peddler who would turn over any dank stone in his quest for knowledge. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| b934b77 | The island. As I tally my losses, it figures large there. If God takes a beloved one unto himself, we feel that loss in our heart. Yet we know well enough that nowt will quicken the dead, and so we must strive to be reconciled. But the island--its briny air, its ever changing light--these things yet exist. There, the clean and glassy breakers still beat upon the sands, the clay cliffs still flare russet and purple each sunset. All of this g.. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 53a9304 | The island cried out to me. I longed to feast my senses on its light and air, and restore my spirit with its peace. If I answered its call, soon enough I would live again in the familiar rhythms of its seasons--the wincing winters and dappled summers, its shy, reluctant springtide and gleaming, bronzed leaf fall. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| c4ef88e | For a girl raised on the rim of a wilderness, it was strange to be in a place where every inch of ground had been settled for hundreds upon hundreds of years. I felt the press of people, and the press of ghosts--great hordes of those who had lived and walked before me. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| b92392b | All this is true and certain. But what I do not know is this: which home welcomed him, at the end. Whichever it was--the celestial English heaven of seraphim, cherubim and ophanim, or Kietan's warm and fertile place away in the southwest, I believe that his song was powerful enough for Joel to hear and to follow him there. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 6241450 | Anys was so skilled with plants and balms that she knew how to extract their fragrant oils, and these she wore on her person so that a light, pleasant scent, like summer fruits and flowers, always preceded her. | herbalist naturalism year-of-wonders | Geraldine Brooks | |
| be5ff7f | And now I tell you this: do not dwell any more on things in the past that you cannot change. Who made man frail of the flesh? Who made our lusts, our low ways and our high? Did not God? Is not He the author of it all? The appetites we have all come from Him; they have been with us since Eden. If we slip and fall, He understands our weakness. Did not mighty King David lust, and was he not driven through his lust to do great wrong? And yet Go.. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| b70aeb5 | By the time the seasons turned through four more reapings, he had been crowned king of Yudah. By the time I was counted a man, he had added the crown of the kingdom of Israel | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| c9436d8 | Being a father, having an heir, seem to add an extra dimension to David. He had always been of vivid, animating presence in any room he entered. But now he would come from visiting the boy crackling with even greater energy and force. He had been engaged listener, ready to learn what any man might have to offer in discussion, but now there was an additional depth to his questions, a more far-reaching vision behind his decisions. He thought .. | parenthood | Geraldine Brooks | |
| b37d316 | This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 02360db | And he exercised uncommon tact with his men, meeting them where they stood, rather than demanding that they always be the ones accommodating themselves. I have learned over time that this quality is rare in any man, even more so in a leader. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 400ba80 | I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 62049b2 | It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that the Indians are uncommonly fortunate to be here. | Geraldine Brooks |