Comments for Tolstoy Therapy https://tolstoytherapy.com Feel better with books. Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Comment on Snuggling up for winter with The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way by Dennis Mitton https://tolstoytherapy.com/coorie-scottish-happiness/#comment-2072 https://tolstoytherapy.com/?p=2250#comment-2072 Seems that all cultures have a tradition of living a more quiet, slow, and contemplative life based on enjoying relationships. How did we get so skewed?

]]> Comment on Snuggling up for winter with The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way by MR https://tolstoytherapy.com/coorie-scottish-happiness/#comment-2064 https://tolstoytherapy.com/?p=2250#comment-2064 Thank you for creating your wonderful site. I discovered it just before I started reading “War and Peace”. I have been enduring an extremely difficult time in life and someone who is a “War and Peace” enthusiast urged me to read the book. So I am. While I have read much of Tolstoy’s work I avoided “War and Peace” until now. I think it was waiting for me at this point in my life for when I would benefit most. Thank you again for sharing your ideas. You write beautifully.

]]> Comment on Zen: The Art of Simple Living as a beautifully illustrated book for self-care by Andreia Esteves https://tolstoytherapy.com/zen-art-of-simple-living/#comment-1838 /?p=2055#comment-1838 This book sounds lovely and the illustrations are gorgeous!
I’ve added it to my wishlist 🙂

]]> Comment on “Let My Country Awake” by Rabindranath Tagore to Inspire Individual and Social Change by Dorothy Ann Castelino https://tolstoytherapy.com/let-my-country-awake-by-rabindranath-tagore-inspiration-change/#comment-1682 https://tolstoytherapy.com/?p=141#comment-1682 It’s now 2019 and ‘Let My Country Awake’ is as powerful in its poignancy and relevance. In fact more so now than ever before both in my Indian land of birth and my country, of citizenship, the United States of America. Ironically, the prevailing political climates are similar! Fear dogs the undocumented, ‘fake news’ legitimizes shallow truths, and racism has indeed fragmented relationships and muddied the clarity of reason. Tagore’s poem continues to provide the moral imperative of hope, the balm to tireless striving. And I pray for the world “Into that heaven of freedom, My Father, let your creation awake”.

]]> Comment on My experience of EMDR therapy for PTSD and trauma by Elaine Baer https://tolstoytherapy.com/my-experience-of-emdr-therapy/#comment-1249 https://tolstoytherapy.com/?p=272#comment-1249 I love that you took the risk of publishing this blog. I did marketing for one of the best treatment centers in the US, The Life Healing Center of Santa Fe. It closed when the owner sold it to sombody who could not manage it with integrity and insight. I just went through the Malibu wild fires and I am staying in Seattle with my life turned upside down. So, I thought I would find an EMDR therapist in the area. Your wonderful blog, has empowered me to take the leap again. Thanks, E Baer, Seattle

]]> Comment on 8 books to feel better with if you feel hopeless right now by Dennis Mitton https://tolstoytherapy.com/books-to-read-on-difficult-days/#comment-1176 https://tolstoytherapy.com/?p=1473#comment-1176 I love anything Sherlock Holmsian and am a fan of Marcus Aurelius as well. But I haven’t read The Good Life. Will certainly put it on the list. Speaking of The Good Life, and you bring up the BBC, are you familiar with the series The Good Life? From before you time, I’m sure. My favorite series of all time that definitely picks me up when I need it to. Thanks for the recommendations!

]]> Comment on On War & Peace: My Problems With The Pevear & Volokhonsky Translation (Part II) by Ruskee https://tolstoytherapy.com/on-war-peace-my-problems-with-pevear_17/#comment-1170 https://tolstoytherapy.com/?p=186#comment-1170 Very interesting post, thank you! The P&V excerpts you provide seems so stilted and unnatural in English: ’causeless’ instead of ‘spontaneous’ is awful! I read (or began to read) the P&V translation of The Master and Margarita but soon switched to the Glenny translation. The latter read far more naturally in English and in some respects was more faithful than the P&V. I’ll choose either Briggs or Edmonds for War & Peace.

]]> Comment on Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga by Sylvain Tesson by Dennis Mitton https://tolstoytherapy.com/consolations-of-the-forest/#comment-1163 https://tolstoytherapy.com/?p=1263#comment-1163 This resonates with me as well. Any resemblance to Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim At Tinker Creek or Holy The Firm?

]]> Comment on Allen Ginsberg on never working again (and living a “literary and quiet city-hermit existence” instead) by JaneGS https://tolstoytherapy.com/allen-ginsberg-on-never-working-again/#comment-2 https://tolstoytherapy.com/?p=88#comment-2 TIme to think, time to enjoy life, I can relate to that! Good post.

]]> Comment on Allen Ginsberg on never working again (and living a “literary and quiet city-hermit existence” instead) by Marshein https://tolstoytherapy.com/allen-ginsberg-on-never-working-again/#comment-4 https://tolstoytherapy.com/?p=88#comment-4 Last week I went to hear Wendy Loesser speak; she's written a book, "Why I Read." She spends her life editing the Threepenny Review and reading, reading reading. Among other things, she said she had a long and extremely significant relationship with Henry James. I found her totally inspiring as a role model.

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