“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
“Defrosting is excruciatingly painful. You have been numb for so long. As feeling comes back to your soul, you start to tingle, and it’s uncomfortable and strange. But then the tingles start feeling like daggers. Sadness, loss, fear, anger, anxiety—all of these things that you have been numbing with the booze—you feel them for the first time. And it’s horrific at first, to tell you the damn truth. But welcoming the pain and refusing to escape from it is the only way to recovery. You can’t go around it, you can’t go over it, you have to”
― Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
― Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
“Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
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