In Deep Thoughts from the Shallow Pool, Canadian authors Kevin Mitchell and Keith Shular invite readers on a transformative journey through the human experience. This powerful collection of poems, quotes, and philosophical reflections explores the depths of self-reflection, love, grief, inspiration, and hope. Created to be a source of comfort, wisdom, and motivation, this book provides readers with the tools to reflect on life’s challenges, find inner strength, and nurture mental well-being.
Carefully curated and thoughtfully organized into thematic chapters, each passage offers insight and solace, empowering readers to reconnect with their emotions and engage in meaningful self-discovery. Whether you’re looking for comfort in times of loss, inspiration to overcome life’s obstacles, or simply a moment of quiet introspection, Deep Thoughts from the Shallow Pool delivers timeless wisdom from some of history’s greatest minds, along with modern reflections that resonate with today’s world.
Deep Thoughts from the Shallow Pool is perfect for anyone who seeks encouragement, healing, or a deeper understanding of life’s complexities. It’s a book to return to time and again, for both quiet reflection and thoughtful conversation.
قائمة المحتويات
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I – LOOKING INWARD
Two Monks and a Woman
Drowning by Keith Shular
In Her Soft Eyes by Kevin Mitchell
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
CHAPTER II – INSPIRATION
This Life by Keith Shular
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
You Are The Sun by Nikita Gill
IF- by Rudyard Kipling
CHAPTER III – GREAT MINDS
Marcus Aurelius
Five Perspectives on Life
Aurelius’ Meditations
Stoicism
Powerful Words from Incredible Minds
Our Perceptions
CHAPTER IV – LOSS AND GRIEF
Unable are the Loved to die by Emily Dickinson
I Shall Forget You Presently My Dear by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Squeaky Wheel by Keith Shular
Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
Remember by Christina Rossetti
A Love That Would Never Be by Kevin Mitchell
Grandfather by James Whitcomb Riley
The Willow Tree by Kevin Mitchell
I Thank God by Helen Keller
Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson
CHAPTER V – LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS
To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
On Disheveled Sheets by Kevin Mitchell
She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon Byron
My Child by Rabindranath Tagore
Vision of the World by William Butler Yeats
CHAPTER VI – HOPE
Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe
Untitled by Kevin Mitchell
Hope by Emily Dickinson
Flicker and Fade by Kevin Mitchell
To The Future by Emma Lazarus
FINAL THOUGHTS
KEVIN ANTHONY MITCHELL
KEITH E. J. SHULAR
LITERARY INDEX
عن المؤلف
Keith was born on November 18th, 1975, in a circular tower known as Scarborough General Hospital in Ontario, Canada. Keith has a wide variety of interests including: solitude and Mother Nature; science and engineering; history and archaeology; music, guitar and sound engineering; sketching, painting and wood carving; as well as starting and not completing projects. He currently works helping people living with mental illness and addiction. Keith can be reached at [email protected].