Excerpts from Books Worth Buying

The Postman is a novel  from the point of view of the  mailman who delivers the mail to  Pablo Neruda. Neruda gives him advice on love and life.

Khalil Gibran Broken Wings

  The Broken Wings

Only the most ancient love on earth will wash and comb the statue of the children, straighten the feet and knees. The water rises, the soap slithers, and the pure body comes up to breathe the air of flowers and motherhood. Oh, the sharp watchfulness, the sweet deception, the lukewarm struggle! Now the hair is a tangled pelt criscrossed by charcoal, by sawdust and oil, soot, wiring, crabs, until love, in its patience, sets up buckets and sponges, combs and towels, and, out of scrubbing and combing, amber, primal scrupulousness, jasmines, has emerged the child, newer still, running from the mother's arms to clamber again on its cyclone, go looking for mud, oil, urine and ink, hurt itself, roll about on the stones. Thurs, newly washed, the child springs into life, for later, it will have time for nothing more than keeping clean, but with the life lacking.

“I hope that after reading the following pages the leaders of the Y. M. C. A. will start a campaign to induce good young men to do nothing. If so, I shall not have lived in vain.”  - Bertrand Russell

Uji --essay by Zen Master Dogen