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Ben is Currently Reading

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Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants

by Dennis Okholm

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Roughing It

by Mark Twain

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Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

by Krista Tippett

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Ben ’s Notes & Highlights

Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

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it, “A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.”

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Ben ’s Quotes

“We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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“I know I can’t drive a truck. And I can’t run a bank. And I can’t count. And I can’t lead a movement. But I can f*ck up your mind.”
― James Baldwin

tags: division-of-labor, division-of-labour, iconoclast, interdependence, power, power-of-words, synergy, thinkers, thought-provoking, wisdom

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“As Father Guy, one of the first monks I met, put it, "Samuel said, "Speak, Lord, for thy servant is listening'; we more often say, 'Listen, Lord, for thy servant is speaking.”
― Dennis Okholm, Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants

tags: anxiety, contemplative, god, listening, patience, prayer, protestantism, spirituality, waiting

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“Or, as the writer Anaïs Nin put it, “We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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“In his book Consolations, the essayist and poet David Whyte observed that the ultimate touchstone of friendship “is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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