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
