ABSTRACT
Following on from A Life of One’s Own and An Experiment in Leisure, Eternity’s Sunrise explores Marion Milner’s way of keeping a diary. Recording small private moments, she builds up a store of ‘bead memories.’ A carved duck, a sprig of asphodel, moments captured in her travels in Greece, Kashmir and Israel, circus clowns, a painting - each makes up a 'bead' that has a warmth or glow which comes in response to asking the simple question: What is the most important thing that happened yesterday?
From these beads – sacred, horrific, profane, funny – grows a sense of an ‘answering activity’, the result of turning one’s attention inwards to experience real joy. What Marion Milner conveys so vividly and inspirationally is her lifelong intention to live as completely as possible in the moment.
With a new introduction by Hugh Haughton, Eternity’s Sunrise will be essential reading for all those interested in reflecting on the nature of their own happiness – whether readers from a literary, an artistic, a historical, an educational or a psychoanalytic/psychotherapeutic background.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |94 pages
Diary keeping on holidays
chapter |13 pages
A first visit to Greece
chapter |11 pages
A second visit to Greece
chapter |8 pages
A third visit to Greece
chapter |13 pages
Telling the beads
chapter |7 pages
The gypsy and the soldier
chapter |8 pages
The nature of the ‘Answering Activity'
chapter |4 pages
‘And Answer Came There None'
chapter |11 pages
The dancing girl of Mykonos
chapter |5 pages
A fourth visit to Greece
chapter |8 pages
Other beads from other places
chapter |4 pages
‘Not Seeing the Mountains'
part |51 pages
Diary keeping between holidays (A–Z)
part |10 pages
A visit to Israel
part |39 pages
Work and play