Proust Questionnaire: A.'s answers

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On Sun, 10 Jul 16 18:20:58 UTC A. answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be ignorant of who I truly am
Where would you like to live?: A simple home in an abundance of nature.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Needs provided for, few wants, surrounded by nature, books, creating something uplifting for the world.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Impatience with stupidity.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Characters who do not compromise their highest ideals and principles, who live free of the herd.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Adi Shankaracharya, John Muir, Hildegard Von Bingen, Sri Ramana Maharshi
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who love the truth and seek it no matter where it leads them.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are uncompromisingly honest with themselves and others, who follow their inner direction.
Your favorite painter?: Joan Mitchell
Your favorite musician?: Jean de Sainte-Colombe
The quality you most admire in a man?: Authentic humility born of experience.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Constant and quiet faith in herself.
Your favorite virtue?: Faith
Your favorite occupation?: Just being...wherever.
Who would you have liked to be?: The version of myself that I'm meant to be.
Your most marked characteristic?: Ease with self.
What do you most value in your friends?: Self awareness
What is your principle defect?: Impatience with the flaws of others
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To not use this life for self realization.
What would you like to be?: Ever more free in trusting life.
What is your favorite color?: I never answer this question.
What is your favorite flower?: I think...the marigold
What is your favorite bird?: Mourning Dove
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Janet Frame and Annie Dillard, among many others
Who are your favorite poets?: T.S Eliot, Theodore Roethke, Denise Levertov
Who are your heroes in real life?: Men who buck societal conventions and live on their own terms
What are your favorite names?: Don't have any
What is it you most dislike?: Exploitation of the world for personal gain
What historical figures do you most despise?: Dictators
What event in military history do you most admire?: Not versed in military history
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Tolerance and acceptance
How would you like to die?: Peacefully
What is your present state of mind?: Impatience to finish this questionnaire.
What is your motto?: I don't have one

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