d-harma blues

"It was beautiful. The pinkness vanished and then it was all purple dusk and the roar of the silence was like a wash of diamond waves going through the liquid porches of our ears, enough to soothe a man a thousand years."

The silence of nature is actually very loud. The bueaty of it all is amazing that when you listen to eat the sound of trees and birds you feel one with the earth. You feel content to be where you are.

d-harma blues

"The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a peice of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify to this feeling."

The woods is this kind of mystical place were we are in touch with nature. No forest is really alike the senses that it gives off. also that so many things have goon by while the woods have just been there always the same.

D-harma blues

And if you dont beleive me come back in a million years and deny it, For What is Time?

Ray is trying to convince allvah to life an alternative way. Ray is replying back that if he doesnt beleive in what he says he could change that but the time it takes does not matter in life. So time is really a clock counting till death.

d-harma blues

"at this time i was a perfect dhrama bum myself and considered myself a religous wanderer."

I find this true because through out the chapter he is taking the simple ist was to get by. For example hitcking onto the train. Or sleeping on the beach being one with nature.

Toms quote

"Perhaps the most powerful way in which we conspire against ourselves is the simple fact that we have jobs. We are willingly part of a world designed for the convenience of what Shakespeare called “the visible God”: money. When I say we have jobs, I mean that we find in them our home, our sense of being grounded in the world, grounded in a vast social and economic order. It is a spectacularly complex, even breathtaking, order, and it has two enormous and related problems. First, it seems to be largely responsible for the destruction of the natural world. Second, it has the strong tendency to reduce the human beings inhabiting it to two functions, working and consuming. It tends to hollow us out. It creates a hole in our sense of ourselves and of this country, and it leaves us with few alternatives but to try to fill that hole with money and the things money buys. We are not free to dismiss money because we fear that we’d disappear, we’d be nothing at all without it. Money is, in the words of Buddhist writer David Loy, “the flight from emptiness that makes life empty.

The writer ends the quote how he does to leave a lasting effect on the audiance with a quote from a buddhist because people generalize them to be knowing of the inner self and surroundings so if he said it it must be correct. I deffinatley belive money does change us becuase we must work for it the way we want to live creating a constant lifestyle.

are these actual miles

"They run everywhere in her flesh, dozens, perhaps hundreds of them. He remembers waking up the morning after they bought the car, seeing it, there in the drive, in the sun, gleaming."

the strech marks is the stress they go through. these hundreds because of their problems of bankrubacy.

are these actual miles

"They buy what they want. If they can't pay, they charge. They sign up."

This is an example of the 50's and the american dream. People like this are struggleing with money. But they persist to buy and do what they can to keep possesions