Gift from the Sea

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Gift from the Sea is a book that enacts its own prescription … which is my attempt to sum up how this book about the difficulty, but also the inestimable value, of quiet meditation prompts its readers (or this reader, anyway) to just such inward contemplation. Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid. if you've already lived the hard life, and come through it, worse for the wear but better in soul, don't bother with Gifts From the Sea.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God (pp 23-24). In this period, a couple establishes its way in the world and builds a home in which to raise children.I might be really lame, but I tried reading this last year and found it so unbearably boring, I couldn't continue.

Closeness to nature to strengthen understanding and faith in the intermittency of life: life of the spirit, creative life and the life of human relationships. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable. When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. She also suggests that a new generation of women who are more questioning than their forebears is uniquely positioned to take on this challenge.Because we cannot deal with the complexity of the present, we often over-ride it and live in a simplified dream of the future. She doesn’t idealize this phase of marriage, recognizing that like the oyster shell’s, its excrescences are “not primarily beautiful but functional.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I felt dumb for not liking it because I know how many people love it, but maybe I'd enjoy it more at a different time in my life. And I personally am always a bit wary of advice to accept things they way they are now, even as I recognize that taking “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” as one’s motto is likely not the route to contentment for us any more than for Ulysses. It looks rather like the house of a big family, pushing out one addition after another to hold its teeming life” (p. This little book is extraordinary in its content and brilliant in its discreet size to carry in your handbag!Sarah Ritchie crafted a unique and exceptional ceremony, eschewing rote procedural tropes for a heartfelt and personalized experience that drew both laughter and tears from our friends and family.