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One does not need to recreate the cosmos or to fix it, but I can choose to love, despite everything. This is currency. Only God frees me to choose this because, without him, I would slide into the condition of the killers, the beast-men of
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“There is hideous pain in watching everyone else’s busily normal and undisrupted life”
― The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation
― The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation
“Time passing,” Jordan said, his eyes casting upward toward the stars. “It’s the big surprise in life. It might be the only one.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“With a wispier sense of self and growing courage and longing, we remain surrendered. This movement allows us to ripen every positive potentiality, our buddhaseed, our Christ consciousness, in transcendence. Here, as Martin Laird, a contemporary Christian contemplative, puts it, is “not the loss of identity but its flowering.”
― The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older
― The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older
“Why do we die? We begin to answer the question simply: because we are alive.”
― The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation
― The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation
“No, of course I don’t. You two were crazy about each other. She was hearing the voices that killed her when she was a little girl. John Hardin hears those same voices. There’s a kind of songbird too pretty to fly with the crows and the starlings. The other birds attack it in flocks and tear it apart when it starts to sing. Nothing soft endures. Nature loathes meekness and goodness. Shyla got hurt early and deep. You kept her from the bridge as long as you could, son.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
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