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Photo by  Julie Johnson  on  Unsplash In making the handle Of an axe By cutting wood with an axe The model is indeed near at hand. (Lu Ji's Wên Fu , fourth century A.D. "Essay on Literature"- in the Preface, via Gary Snyder's poem - Axe Handles )

Photo by  Enache Georgiana  on  Unsplash According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. This is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the pain and suffering of life on earth is worthwhile-just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can... bliss. Elizabeth Gilbert (in Eat Pray Love )

Photo by  Karsten Würth (@inf1783)  on  Unsplash Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or to lose the murder weapon with which the loved one was lost in the first place. Elizabeth Gilbert (in Eat Pray Love )