“I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.”
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.”
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“She wanted to know about them, not to know them.”
― When Marnie Was There
― When Marnie Was There
“When you grow as old as I am you can’t any longer say this was someone’s fault, and that was someone else’s. It isn’t so clear when you take a long view. Blame seems to lie everywhere. Or nowhere. Who can say where unhappiness begins?”
― When Marnie Was There
― When Marnie Was There
“In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.”
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
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