#fire sermon

Recalling Buddha’s Fire Sermon: “Bhikkhus, all is burning … burning with the fire of greed, with the fire of aversion, with the fire of delusion.” We are seeing burning in all quarters.

"The river’s tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed." --T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land III, Fire Sermon.

An almost philosophical novel about the relationships of one woman with her husband, her lover and God. One of those novels you should read a second time in order to get even better what writer Quatro is sharing with you. #Fire Sermon #JamieQuatro

Sometimes you forget about a book. It is left standing on your bookshelf, gathering dust. Fire Sermon was one of those. There always was another book that just had to be read first. Turns out I denied myself a beautiful novel for far too long. Fire Sermon kind of resembles 200 pages of contemplation by main character Maggie on the three most important relationships in her life: with her husband…