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Ecclesiastes has been my spiritual comfort food since I was an emo teeny-bopper. Living Life Backwards took me back anew. This slim book reads like Kerrigold Irish butter but with the rich depth of a Sherry-Cask Aged Scotch. Dr Gibson, a gaelic pasto
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“The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, even God. The mind’s sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious, clamoring mind will hush if you give it an egg.”
― The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
― The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
“If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.”
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“It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.”
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Joseph’s 2025 Year in Books
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