Eternity's Sunrise

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.