Pesach Eisen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“Therapy isn't radio. We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when it's quiet, surprising things happen.” -Mary Pipher Letters to a Young Therapist

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“Why are you running—to reach me? Settle in the placeless place I am. Settle in the nowhere everywhere I am.” —Rumi (Gold: Poems by Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori)

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“Slow tears rose to her eyes: of joy, for what she had come to; of anguish, for the road that had brought her here.” -James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain

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“To rule over another person, if one can claim that to rule him is for that person’s own sake, frequently appears as an expression of love, but the essential factor is the enjoyment of domination.” —Erich Fromm Escape from Freedom

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énouement (𝘯.) the bittersweetness of having arrived here in the future, finally learning the answers to how things turned out but being unable to tell your past self. *from John Koenig's “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” (@ObscureSorrows) _____ Art by @dadushin. https://t.co/UmQ2wYvcwf

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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” -Kurt Vonnegut Mother Night (1962)

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“Every life is an unprecedented experiment. This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. There is no map. We are all pioneers.” –Glennon Doyle, “Untamed” (2020) https://t.co/igVBU4Oqwc