This book has a mixed feeling of superstitious and philosophical questions, answers, explanations and interpretations. Emotions are taking control, yet a reasonable thinking based on mercy and love to the world, the entire planet. It is a virtue to spread messages like this to readers.

The essence of the book is good, but somehow I find the content was put in between positions, an awkward being, hard to understand or say, to believe to the author, because the feelings are too unreal, intangible and implacable.

Through the reading, a missionary figure from the author side rises to me as if the author talks in a religious way. Not sure if it is compatible to the book, but it certainly confuses me somehow.

sorry, DNF. Excruciating read.


Quotable quotes:

- Simone Weil: Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

- Without attachments, no life.

- Our efforts to describe and understand the world are directed away from the experience of being alive and being in relationship.

- I have the impression that love is nothing more than pure aliveness in flesh and blood, with a beating heart and overspread wings.

- Planet has entered the sixth wave of extinction.

- Hadn’t we all become obsessed with an image of love that led us away from aliveness and sucked us down into a spiral of desires in whose middle was nothing but our own optimized selves -cutoff, disconnected and ultimately dead?

- Those who live close to those rocky rivers, running through their valleys, will always be reminded that there was a beginning that no human planned or designed, a beginning in which humans and rolling stones were still one and the same.

- Paul Claudel: “Water is the gaze of the Earth, its instrument for looking at time.”
“Be naked like us, the elements!”

- Loreen Eiseley: ‘For what else have stones been shaped, but to prolong the human presence and to say, soundlessly in lost tongues, We loved the earth, but could not stay.’

- Nothing is fulfilled. But everything seems possible.

- Bruce Birren: “We’re not individuals, we’re colonies” (In the human body, thousands of different players make the meaningful whole possible.....on top of your ten billion body cells, there are 100 billion microbial cells that play a role in our metabolism. ...if we include the microbes genes, then we have 100,000 genes at our disposal, as opposed to just 20,000.)

-Nothing in the rondel of life is ever owned.

- Kalevi Kull, teacher at the University of Estonia is a Socrates of biological self-awareness.

- If you wish for life, you must be prepared to welcome death.....living means learning to die.....light and darkness - both are essential if anything is to be created.

- Octavia Paz: “We are the theater of the embrace of opposites and of their dissolution.”

- Repressed aliveness.

- Naked. Unarmored. Curious. Courageous. Now.