Akemi G.
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Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
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2014
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One of the stories in which Christie shows off her knowledge of the theater. You’re in great disadvantage if you don’t know what the old Italian comedy is about. But then, we like this kind of showoffs, don’t we. | |
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This was a thrilling and thought-provoking read (the two qualities can coexist, you know) that starts super strong, gets even more interesting in the middle, even though it gets a bit cliched yakuza-like toward the end. I suspect the cliche might be ...more | |
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Sorry, I cheated (again) and read the Japanese original. Although I read this after Scattered All Over the Earth, I see this novella was written before that, and the two are loosely in the same world. Her prose is sparse; I’m sure it’s intentional. Th ...more |
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I love the setting of this story. Small Irish town in 1985. The protagonist was born fatherless. He is now a father of five daughters, and runs a small business of selling coals and logs. The economy is bad and people are poor—most sales are on credi ...more | |
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I didn’t read this English translation. I read the modern Japanese translation by Takehiko Fukunaga that collects 155 stories from Vol 11 to 31 of the original. (Vol 1-10 are set in India and China; the rest is set in Japan.) Although the author and ...more | |
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This is brilliant! The first half is told by Ava to a detective . . . and she talks a lot. I guess we all know the saying that this is a sign of a liar; yet I didn’t expect things would land this way. Nice heist story that works precisely because the ...more | |
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I adore the way this novel is written, its word-plays and the jumps of metaphors. I read the original Japanese version, so I can’t comment on the translation— I guess it was challenging. Just one example of her word play: nise (fake) and shinise (old ...more | |
“Synchronicity happens when we align with the flow of the universe rather than insisting the universe flow our way.”
― Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
― Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
“Few words have been misunderstood more than “love,” perhaps with the exception of “God”
― Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
― Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
“Life is never against you because you are the one who is creating it.”
― Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
― Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
“Unending Love
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man's days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours -
And the songs of every poet past and forever.”
― Selected Poems
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man's days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours -
And the songs of every poet past and forever.”
― Selected Poems
“It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love”
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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
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“The sky is not my limit...I am.”
― From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
― From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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Aug 31, 2015 01:03PM
Thanks for the friend request Akemi! I'm looking forward to watching your feed and finding more Japanese novels I should have on my TBR!
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Thank you very much for your friend request, Akemi. I am ecstatic to see your love and understanding of Japanese lit. I am still a neophyte in it but I have great enthusiasm and I bet we will have wonderful discussions about books, life and other interesting matters. I notice you mentioned Shakespeare as one of your fav writers. Another match. I have "The Tale of the Genji" spotted out and your response encourages me to tackle it sooner than later.