My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.
Sara MaitlandGardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.
Sara MaitlandIf you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply โalone.โ
Sara MaitlandAnother of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.
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