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How to Make 2023 Your Greatest Reading Year (and Lessons Learnt from the Great Books) (Patreon)

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Dear Book Club Readers ---

Today I would love to share my reflections on the year just passed and talk about how to make 2023 your greatest reading year. 

We're talking about lessons learnt from living the great books, creating powerful habits and routines, personal growth, and much more. 

Timestamps:

  • 0:00 our exciting reading projects
  • 2:09 on time behaving strangely in 2022
  • 6:55 how to make 2023 a great year
  • 8:00 habit creation & achieving big goals
  • 9:00 anxiety & learning to fly
  • 11:11 paradoxical intention
  • 13:00 on reading challenging books
  • 14:30 how to create powerful habits
  • 15:15 on mantras & yearly words
  • 17:30 on looking after yourself
  • 20:30 the book club’s favourite works
  • 21:30 George Eliot’s Middlemarch
  • 22:00 reform starts at home
  • 25:00 on character trajectories
  • 26:26 spiritual growth is painful
  • 28:00 the value of vicarious experience
  • 29:00 hero’s journeys are circular
  • 30:00 knowing a writer by their readers
  • 32:30 Moby Dick & Blood Meridian
  • 34:20 reading beyond the binaries
  • 35:20 James Joyce’s Ulysses
  • 36:20 Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
  • 38:20 seeing ourselves in another
  • 40:00 on meaning, spirituality & love
  • 44:00 converting intuition to wisdom
  • 46:00 how writers become our friends
  • 47:50 on questioning the meaning of life
  • 49:20 the power of negative capability
  • 50:00 The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • 51:00 expressing the inexpressible
  • 52:00 irony in great literature
  • 53:30 Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa
  • 54:10 books as ‘empathy machines’
  • 55:30 the wisdom of Shakespeare
  • 57:30 recalling literature from memory
  • 58:30 the value of reading aloud
  • 1:00:00 the healing power of literature
  • 1:01:00 on the great conversation
  • 1:02:10 reading habits & life routines 
  • 1:07:00 personal well wishes for you

Questions for you:

1) What did you learn from great literature last year?

2) Are you creating any new habits or routines this year?

Happy reading, everybody!

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Wyatt K.

Here is something to ponder:

Wyatt K.

Could we be within Gods mind? Just as we create people, and even places, when we dream. Could we be in his dream. Just as the people that we create in our dreams are not under our direct influence, but are part of us. Just as we are part of God; or he part of us. When physicist predict the ending of entropy,-- the time when all energy in the universe has but turned into empty heat energy: Our final sleep. This could be but Gods awakening. And when he awakes, could he be in a world even more vibrant than ours? So that when he's fallen back asleep, and dreams the universe back into existence, could it be created anew with yet more vibrance from the inspiration of his word. But here is the most important question: When he goes back to sleep, will it be the most memorable people, creations, places, that would pop up again. When people talk about another life after ours, could it be but another dream. This is just what came into my head when you talked about belief, and all. I myself am a deist. For, I believe that God is, as Thomas Paine said in The Age of Reason: "The only idea man can affix to the name of God is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And incomprehensible and difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it from the tenfold greater difficulty of disbelieving it." That might just be the one quote that has the most weight (in my personal view) then all those I have ever come across, or will ever. But, as you have just displayed, we can disbelieve it. I don't mean to get to lofty and religious, but once in a while I don't mind being way out there. If I have in sighted any thoughts, please tell me! Thanks - Wyatt

Tatiana
>>103188932

Here is an interesting answer to your first question, according to certain Biblical scholars, especially the devotees of The Course in Miracles, early on in Genesis it says Adam went to sleep. Nowhere does it say he woke up. Ergo, the WHOLE rest of the Bible is his dream.

Wyatt K.
>>103188932

Thanks for the insight! Surely thought provoking. Have a great rest of your day! :)