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There are scars on my heart, just as thick, as disfiguring as those on my face. I know they’re there. I hope some undamaged tissue remains, a patch through which love can come in and flow out. I hope.
“The other nine, decent, hard-working, ordinarily intelligent and honest men, did not know before 1933 that Nazism was evil. They did not know between 1933 and 1945 that it was evil. And they do not know it now.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
“Greenspan calls this “spiritual bypassing”—using religion to dodge the dark emotions instead of letting it lead us to embrace those dark angels as the best, most demanding spiritual teachers we may ever know.”
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
“Prayer can be a rhythm that helps us make sense in times of senselessness, not offering solutions, but speaking to and from the mystery of humanity.”
― Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community
― Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community
“My friends wanted Germany purified. They wanted it purified of the politicians, of all the politicians. They wanted a representative leader in place of unrepresentative representatives.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
“The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction,” wrote the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart.”
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
― Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness
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