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“More often than I like to admit, I’ve forgotten lessons learned and had to start over from scratch, relearning what I thought I knew. One advantage of age is the chance it gives us to learn and relearn until we truly know.”
― On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, & Getting Old
― On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, & Getting Old
“humans are social and spiritual by design. Our behavior is driven by a desire for belonging and purpose. We’re “cultish” by nature.”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
“Depression was, indeed, the hand of a friend trying to press me down to ground on which it was safe to stand—the ground of my own being, with its messy mix of limits and potentials, liabilities and assets, darkness and light.”
― On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, & Getting Old
― On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, & Getting Old
“In fact, belonging protects the heart from much of life’s unavoidable challenges.”
― The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
― The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
“Merton goes on to say that the contradictions in our lives are engines of creativity. It’s true. If we got everything right or everything wrong, there’d be none of the divine discontent or the sense of possibility that animates our growth. What we get wrong makes us reach for something better. What we get right reassures us that the “better” is sometimes within our reach.”
― On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, & Getting Old
― On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, & Getting Old
Cord Morgan’s 2024 Year in Books
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