“…I’ve discovered over the years that the simplist explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another–desire, by another name– is the source of almost every sorrow.”
From the book, The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
Every Sorrow
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Wow. Powerful indeed
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She is a wonderful writer.
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Very timely for me, thanks.
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Sometimes books and quotes come into our lives exactly when we need them.
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True… though… “At the beginning was Desire” (Rig Veda)
🙂
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yes, the heart of spirit
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I’ve always found interesting the different focus of Creation in the Western world: “The Verb” and the Eastern world: “Desire”. 🙂
Be good.
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I repeatedly told my team of design drafters that the simple solutions were the right solutions. Convincing them was hard work. Also, if something is difficult it is because someone is making it so. The second part, desire, sounds right but had not occurred to me in such clarity. 😀
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This writer, Claire Messud, has such a distinctive writing style that almost every paragraph is a work of art. It is hard to always believe that the simple solutions are the right solutions. It must be human nature to want to muddy things up and make them complicated.
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Yes, we do that. I would have thought greed but reading ‘desire’ I see she is right. I’ll keep the author in mind.
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