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This is an index by subject: the ordinary things a reader might come to this site carrying, and the places where each is actually taken up. It is a list of places and nothing more. An entry says where to look, never what will be found there, and the chapters and pages speak for themselves. In each entry the chapters of Book I come first, then the other pages. Subjects are named in a reader's own words rather than in this site's terms, which have their own page at /glossary, and they are filed under their main word, so "a wandering mind" sits under W. Every one of the eighty-one chapters appears somewhere below. If an entry sends a reader to a page that does not in fact take up its subject, that is an error, and [email protected] is where to say so.
A
- anger — I.27, I.57 · /practice/looking, /philosophy/technology, /letters/beekeeper-3, /stories/the-smith
- apology — /practice/mending, /questions
- attention — I.17, I.21, I.33 · /practice/progression, /way
- avoiding something — I.9 · /practice/loosening
B
- being wrong — I.39 · /philosophy/knowing, /asking/the-looking
- belief — I.1, I.22, I.23, I.24 · /way, /philosophy/knowing
- boredom — I.32 · /practice/looking, /practice/keeping-company, /letters/lamplighter-2
C
- company — I.65, I.81 · /practice/keeping-company, /questions
- compassion — I.13, I.60 · /asking/the-tending
F
- family — I.59 · /practice/home, /thresholds/naming, /letters/mason-8
- fear — I.28, I.41 · /practice/looking, /letters/beekeeper-4
G
- getting older — I.72 · /philosophy/self, /practice/daily, /letters/beekeeper-6
- gifts — I.52 · /philosophy/money, /thresholds/marriage, /calendar
- gratitude — I.74 · /practice/daily, /calendar
- grief — I.44 · /philosophy/death, /thresholds/farewell, /practice/tending-at-the-end
- guilt — I.15, I.56 · /philosophy/ethics, /practice/mending
H
- helping someone — I.49, I.62 · /practice/weekly, /calendar, /letters/reply-3
- honesty — I.54, I.63 · /philosophy/ethics, /practice/mending
- hurting someone — I.50, I.51 · /philosophy/ethics, /practice/mending, /thresholds/coming-of-age, /asking/the-tending
I
- illness — I.71 · /philosophy/suffering, /questions
J
- joy — I.73 · /calendar, /asking/the-carrying
L
- labels — I.11 · /philosophy/self, /thresholds/naming
- letting go — I.6, I.34, I.35, I.36, I.48 · /practice/loosening
- listening — I.58 · /practice/tending-at-the-end, /practice/keeping-company
- love — I.37 · /thresholds/marriage, /asking/the-loosening
- lying to yourself — I.30 · /practice/daily, /calendar
M
- moods — I.3 · /way, /calendar
- mornings — I.66 · /practice/daily, /practice/carrying
O
- old habits — I.5, I.46 · /practice/loosening, /practice/progression
- an ordinary day — I.67, I.80 · /questions
- overthinking — I.31 · /practice/looking
- your own death — I.76 · /philosophy/death, /thresholds/farewell
P
- patience — I.47 · /letters/lamplighter-4
- pleasure — I.45 · /philosophy/suffering, /calendar, /letters/beekeeper-2
- possessions — I.4 · /philosophy/death, /philosophy/money, /letters/mason-4
Q
- quarrels — I.61 · /thresholds/marriage, /asking/the-tending
R
S
- screens and phones — I.55, I.69 · /philosophy/technology, /practice/carrying
- sitting still — I.18 · /practice/settling, /practice/daily
- someone dying — I.75 · /practice/tending-at-the-end, /thresholds/farewell, /stories/the-fisher
- starting over — I.56, I.79 · /practice/carrying, /letters/reply-4
- strangers — I.60 · /asking/the-tending, /letters/lamplighter-3
- suffering — I.2, I.7, I.14 · /philosophy/suffering, /way, /practice/loosening
T
- teachers — I.25 · /philosophy/knowing, /practice/keeping-company, /letters/lamplighter-7
- no time — I.20 · /practice/settling, /letters/mason-8
- tiredness — I.29, I.70 · /practice/daily, /practice/settling
W
- waiting — I.68 · /practice/carrying, /letters/beekeeper-4
- a wandering mind — I.19 · /practice/settling, /practice/home
- wanting — I.8, I.26, I.53 · /practice/looking, /philosophy/money
- what other people think — I.40 · /philosophy/self, /practice/loosening, /asking/the-loosening
- what you leave behind — I.64, I.77 · /philosophy/death, /thresholds/farewell, /letters/mason-3
- who you are — I.10 · /philosophy/self, /asking/the-grip
- a whole life — I.78 · /philosophy/self, /calendar
- work — I.38 · /philosophy/money, /letters/mason-2, /asking/the-loosening
- worry — I.28, I.43 · /asking/the-loosening
Reads with I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.7, I.8, I.9, I.10, I.11, I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15, I.16, I.17, I.18, I.19, I.20, I.21, I.22, I.23, I.24, I.25, I.26, I.27, I.28, I.29, I.30, I.31, I.32, I.33, I.34, I.35, I.36, I.37, I.38, I.39, I.40, I.41, I.42, I.43, I.44, I.45, I.46, I.47, I.48, I.49, I.50, I.51, I.52, I.53, I.54, I.55, I.56, I.57, I.58, I.59, I.60, I.61, I.62, I.63, I.64, I.65, I.66, I.67, I.68, I.69, I.70, I.71, I.72, I.73, I.74, I.75, I.76, I.77, I.78, I.79, I.80, I.81
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