“You think I don’t love my son,” she said. “But I do. It is because I love him that I will not let him put himself beyond redemption.”
“Mother’s ironic vision of life as one prank after another, in the midst of which you did what was needed.”
― Enchantment
― Enchantment
“God must have so ordained this world, and that gave hope to the righteous no matter how bleak their cause.”
― Enchantment
― Enchantment
“His wife even insisted on buying a couple of Cutco knives from me when Scoggin told her what I did for a living.”
― Now, Then, and Everywhen
― Now, Then, and Everywhen
“Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. “We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.”
― Celebration of Discipline
― Celebration of Discipline
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― Oona Out of Order
― Oona Out of Order
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