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