“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Source: After the Quake
“No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.”
Source: 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows
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“The word witch is related to the root of the word "willow," a very flexible tree.”
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Context: The word witch is related to the root of the word "willow," a very flexible tree. Since ancient times witches have been known as those who can bend or shape fate. We twist the energies. The idea of witch became synonymous with wise woman, and with others who were herbalists and healers and keepers of the old traditions after the advent of Christianity. We were the ones who really knew the land and knew what grew there, and how to use it.
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A Grief Observed (1961)
Context: You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose that you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it? … Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.
