From the Pages: confusion, detours and direct routes
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers “What seems a detour has a way of becoming, in time, a direct route.” From the Pages is a category where I’d like to share passages from books...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde “In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures” From the Pages is a category where I’d like to share passages from books that...
View ArticleFrom the Pages: No responsibility and meaningless conversations
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury From the Pages is a category where I’d like to share passages from books that have touched me, comforted me or, maybe, changed me a little bit. I believe bibliotherapy...
View ArticleFrom The Pages: to my fellow sufferers
Parerga and Paralipomena by Arthur Schopenhauer From the Pages is a category where I’d like to share passages from books that have touched me, comforted me or, maybe, changed me a little bit. I...
View ArticleFrom the Pages: Youth and the Wonderful Life
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde From the Pages is a category where I’d like to share passages from books that have touched me, comforted me or, maybe, changed me a little bit. I believe...
View ArticleFrom the Pages: When thoughts defeat us helpless
The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin Yalom “Leaving the room did not clear the muck from Philip’s mind. He walked assailed by anxiety. What had happened to his arsenal of self-soothing techniques? Everything...
View ArticleFrom The Pages: The porcupine fable
The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin Yalom “One cold winter’s day a number of porcupines huddled together quite closely in order, through their mutual warmth, to prevent themselves from being frozen. But...
View ArticleFrom The Pages: Meditation and the Power of Thoughts
"Meditation" by H.Koppdelaney on Flickr “The Way of Peace” by James Allen. The Way of Peace (free Kindle edition here) is a lovely and inspiring little book of musings on meditation, peace of mind and...
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