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Pers Books

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Most people don’t know at all how beautiful the world is and how much splendor is revealed in the smallest things, in some flower, a stone, the bark of a tree, or a birch leaf. Grown-up people, who have business and cares and worry about a lot of trifles, gradually lose their eye entirely for these riches which children, when they are alert, soon notice and love with all their hearts. And yet the finest thing would be if all people would always stay in this relationship like those children, with simple and reverent feelings, and if they would not lose the power to rejoice as deeply in a birch leaf or in the feather of a peacock or the pinion of a hooded crow as in a great mountain range or a splendid palace. The small is as little small as the big is big. There is a great and eternal beauty throughout the world, and it is scattered justly over the small things and the big; for in the important and essential there is no injustice on the whole earth.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke Letter to Helmuth Westhoff, 12th November 1901

#Quote#Nature#Wonder#Rainer Maria Rilke
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SMALL KINDNESSES

Danusha Laméris

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk  down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover  from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead--you first,” “I like your hat.”

#Beautiful#Be Kind#Kindness matters#Kindness can change the world#Quote#Danusha Laméris
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Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause, I do not believe that any of us should give all of our time or effort or heart. Give it what you can, but do not burn yourselves out - or break your hearts. Let us save at least half of our lives for the enjoyment of this wonderful world which still exists. Leave your dens, abandon your cars and walk out into the great mountains, the deserts, the forests, the seashores. Those treasures still belong to all of us. Enjoy them to the full, stretch your legs, expand your lungs, enliven your hearts - and we will outlive the greedy swine who want to destroy it all in the name of what they call GROWTH.

-- Edward Abbey Letter to Florence Kell, 26th September 1976

Astonishing to think so little has changed in regard to greed and destruction of the earth in the nearly half a century since this was written! Actually, it's got worse - look at what the 'AI' techbros are doing - leaving actual residents without water and electricity 'cos they're using it all. Bastards.

#Edward Abbey#Quote#Nature#Fuck Capitalism!
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Two Letters to Autumn

As long as autumn lasts I won’t have enough hands, canvas or colours to paint the beautiful things that I see.

Vincent van Gogh Letter to his brother, Theo 25th September 1888

-- From The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot Letter to Maria Lewis 1st October 1841

-- From George Eliot’s Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals

#Autumn#George Eliot#Vincent van Gogh#Quote
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‘There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.’ -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage [There is a pleasure in the pathless woods], George Gordon Byron, 1788 - 1824
#Poetry#Quote#George Gordon Byron
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 I feel inclined to say (not to anybody in particular) “let us love each other”. Let us be kind and rejoice in one another and leave all squabbles and ugliness to the dull dogs who can only become articulate when they bark and growl. The world is so dreadful in many ways. Do let us be tender with each other. -- Katherine Mansfield, letter to Dorothy Brett regarding the recent death of Mansfield's mother in New Zealand. August 14, 1918.
#Quote#Katherine Mansfield#Kindness
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -- James Baldwin
#Quote#James Baldwin
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This planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds. -- Dalai Lama
#Quote#Dalai Lama#Truth Bomb
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I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you – even until it burns my hand. And when the light has long since gone …. I will be there in the darkness holding what remains, quite simply because I cannot let go. (Ranata Suzuki)
#Quote#Love#Ranata Suzuki
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One thing I am convinced more and more is true and that is this: the only way to be truly happy is to make others happy.

William Carlos Williams Letter to this mother 12th February 1904

(From The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams)

#Quote#William Carlos Williams#Happiness
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