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If the truth is not known in love, if it is not held in intercession and compassion, if it is not offered in courage and humility, then what we know is not the truth at all. So, we have to learn to reign in our thoughts, to hold our
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“We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.”
― Brother Odd
― Brother Odd
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
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“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.”
― Brother Odd
― Brother Odd
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
Ask Anne Lamott - Thursday, December 12th!
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