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       # 2016-11-17 - How To Live Quietly by Annie Payson Call
       
 (IMG) Swan, symbol of discrimination
       
       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.
       
 (HTM) Article about Annie Payson Call
       
       author: Call, Annie Payson, 1853-1940
 (TXT) detail: gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Annie_Payson_Call
       LOC:    BJ1581 .C23
 (HTM) source: http://soilandhealth.org/book/how-to-live-quietly/
       tags:   ebook,non-fiction,spirit
       title:  How To Live Quietly
       
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