tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post8279925647774722661..comments2024-01-22T06:48:48.663-08:00Comments on A View from Sesqua Valley: Peace of Mindw. h. pugmire, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-2081693220597128442013-11-08T00:21:32.155-08:002013-11-08T00:21:32.155-08:00Truly a beautiful thought - books are havens from ...Truly a beautiful thought - books are havens from the ruder world (borrowing a phrase from Samuel Loveman and doubtless others...) outside the reader's mind. As Emily Bronte has it in "No Coward Soul is Mine...." - "So hopeless is the world without; The world within I doubly prize" G. ;-)=Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-84553922477249854542013-11-07T16:07:41.080-08:002013-11-07T16:07:41.080-08:00You certainly have had a busy and very fulfilling ...You certainly have had a busy and very fulfilling life artistically. The peace you are feeling sounds sublime and well deserved. May it stretch into eternity for you. For me I love the absence of self (ego) that comes when absorbed in a good book and the treasured blissful silence that lingers long after its last pages are turned.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048009339451561034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-71392556076800547632013-11-07T12:24:47.617-08:002013-11-07T12:24:47.617-08:00Thank you for your beautiful message. Yes, I feel...Thank you for your beautiful message. Yes, I feel that I am doing exactly what I need to do as well as what I want to do, and to KNOW that with such certainty gives me a sense of peace and joy. w. h. pugmire, esq.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-5900988722771671812013-11-07T00:53:59.537-08:002013-11-07T00:53:59.537-08:00Viktor Frankl when incarcerated in a concentration...Viktor Frankl when incarcerated in a concentration camp in WWII volunteered in his doctorial capacity to look after typhus patients - "As soon as I had told him with finality that I had made up my mind to stay with my patients, the unhappy feeling left me. I did not know what the following days would bring, but I had gained an inward peace that I had never experienced before. I returned to the hut, sat down on the boards at my countryman's feet and tried to comfort him; then I chatted with the others, trying to quiet them in their delirium" ("Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl) - we all find our peace in our own way and with our own sense of self we can offer something to keep us going with a sense of purpose for the time we have left. Time to sit and reflect is never time wasted, time to clear clutter too and refine that we know is within. Peace to you. שלומ (shalom) mon ami. G. ;-)=Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com