“I'm surprise that after all you've been through, you still keep the faith." "I haven't kept it. I lost it and recovered it.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“No tree can grow to Heaven,” adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, “unless its roots reach down to Hell.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“I prayed that the Holy Spirit would manifest itself and teach me what I needed to know. Little by little, I discovered that as I talked to myself, a wiser voice was saying things for m.e”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“The truth is, I had never forgotten love, even when it had deemed me unworthy of fighting for it. But love had been difficult, and I had been reluctant to cross its frontiers.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“I began to imagine how I would like to be living right at that moment. I wanted to be happy, curious, joyful – living every moment intensely, drinking the water of life thirstily. Believing again in my dreams. Able to fight for what I wanted.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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