Come build your castle in the clouds — a spacious and light-filled palace within you where big insights and inspirations are given room to stretch and play. You will design mental "rooms" to house your most important self-observations, your dreams, your fears, your fantasies. To figure out what's going right in your life and what's not. What will make your life manageable and your dreams feasible. To envision and begin to move toward your very best life. You'll build ...
- a Mental Spa for cleansing intrusive, bothersome thoughts.
- a Head Office, where you are in charge.
- a Suite for Shame that includes one side for your real self and the other for your ideal self.
- a Little Chapel for your soul, with a tiny door to keep out your bloated ego.
- a Hall of Tears, where you are allowed to cry as much as you want.
- a Library, where you will discover all the wisdom you hold within your mind and your body.
- a Kitchen to help you digest new information and things that have been said to you.
- and a Mental Spa and a Playroom and more than a dozen other rooms that will become your inner sanctuary.
At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding — a reunion that becomes the occasion of astonishing revelations as the friends collectively recall a long-ago night that indelibly marked each of their lives. This book probes the mysteries of the human heart and the endless allure of paths not taken.
This quote from page 33 continues this blog post's theme of imagination:
"History, Agnes always told her students on the first day of school, was not a matter of dates and battles, but rather one of stories. She would tell them stories, she announced, and they would listen. But as Agnes put her pen and notebook away, she wondered this: Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by the imagination?"
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A Blueprint for Your Castle in the Clouds: Make the Inside of Your Head Your Favorite Place to Be sounds delightful. I always wonder why it is that we, as children, spend much time using our imagination, but we neglect this as we get older. It's a wonderful resource, I think.
ReplyDeleteI used to read every Anita Shreve book that was published, but I haven't read this author in a while.
She's an excellent writer, but I haven't read all of her books by a long shot.
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