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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.
“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
“Tension is the experience of a gap between how things are and how they could be”
― Getting Started With Holacracy: Upgrading Your Team's Productivity
― Getting Started With Holacracy: Upgrading Your Team's Productivity
“Jewish law might forbid befriending Gentiles, but God’s law never did. Peter narrowed God’s plan until it encompassed his tribe alone. Of course, we do the same thing when we think that God is for my tribe, my country, my people, and my party.”
― Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant
― Truth Over Tribe: Pledging Allegiance to the Lamb, Not the Donkey or the Elephant
“Hello to the courage that comes from the same place as fear.”
― In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
― In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
“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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