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# 2016-11-17 - How To Live Quietly by Annie Payson Call |
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Non-fiction book notes written June 12th, 2015. |
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"PEACE is the health of the spirit. ... It is the faults within |
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ourselves that we are neither facing nor shunning that keep us away |
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from peace." |
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"As gradually we learn that it is our own attitude toward life that |
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makes us suffer, not the circumstances and people in life, we come |
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nearer and nearer to our freedom. ... and the contrast is so great |
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between the habitual and customary bondage to people and |
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circumstances and the healthy habit of working to throw off such |
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bondage, as to give us always a growing sense of relief which is |
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delightful." |
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"We are told that at social dinners in some parts of India silence is |
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not in any way considered to be in bad form; quite the reverse. If |
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the host and his guests think of nothing especial to say, they say |
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nothing, and the silence is neither awkward nor dead, but quite alive |
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with thoughts which are getting in form to be spoken, and with the |
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restful sense which each person at the table has of not being forced |
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to speak until he has something to say." |
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Below is an excerpt from an article about the author. |
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Call's school placed children from varied backgrounds in the same |
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classroom because she believed that diversity could lead to |
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intellectual and social advancement. In her writings one finds |
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simple suggestions for ways in which we can be more tolerant, kind, |
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and understanding in a frenzied world. Her firm tone resonates with |
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astonishing power and her belief in the ease with which we can make a |
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better world is contagious sixty-nine years after her passing. |
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Call's writing is anchored in the phrase, "Nature tends toward |
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health." It was her belief that the natural world wants us to be |
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well even if we do not want it to be well. Call even wrote about |
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breathing and stretching exercises that resemble modern yoga and |
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meditation. |
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Article about Annie Payson Call |
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author: Call, Annie Payson, 1853-1940 |
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detail: gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Annie_Payson_Call |
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LOC: BJ1581 .C23 |
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source: http://soilandhealth.org/book/how-to-live-quietly/ |
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tags: ebook,non-fiction,spirit |
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title: How To Live Quietly |
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