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Ben Troutman is currently reading

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

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"Only after I became a married man had it truly dawned on me that I was an inhabitant of earth…. What induced me to see this way was the absolute precision of my wife’s twenty-nine-day menstrual cycle." — Oct 24, 2021 02:49PM

Oct 24, 2021 02:46PM

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The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories

by Elmore Leonard

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"Shut up with that I-can’t-help-it talk! If you can’t help it, nobody can. All your life you’ve been sitting around waiting for something to happen to you. Sometimes you have to walk up and take what you want." — Aug 13, 2021 05:25PM

Aug 13, 2021 05:22PM

Ben’s Quotes

“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”
― Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation – Intimate Reflections on Faith, Seminary, Ministry, and Writing

tags: inspirational, spiritual

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“Walk through the fire and you will emerge on the other end, whole and stronger. I promise. You will ultimately find truth and beauty and wisdom and peace. You will understand that nothing lasts forever, not pain, or joy. You will understand that joy cannot exist without sadness. Relief cannot exist without pain. Compassion cannot exist without cruelty. Courage cannot exist without fear. Hope cannot exist without despair. Wisdom cannot exist without suffering. Gratitude cannot exist without deprivation. Paradoxes about in this life. Living is an exercise in navigating within them.”
― Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

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