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Finding God, Losing God, Becoming God: Discovering the Transformative Truth of God and the Meaning of Life Beyond Religion, by Way of Observation, Contemplation, and Intuition

by John Rainey

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Boy Parts

by Eliza Clark

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful

by Maggie Smith (Goodreads Author)

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Amy’s Quotes

“The established majority takes its we-image from a minority of its best, and shapes a they-image of the despised outsiders from the minority of their worst.”
― Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

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“The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor. That self-canceling feature of my religion is one of the things I like best about it. Jesus never commanded me to love my religion.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

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“I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn’t understand that even when we can’t control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn’t returned. The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing.”
― Alice Hoffman, Green Heart

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“We ended up spreading our national cultures under the rubric of Jesus, instead of a universally liberating message under the name of Christ.”
― Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

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“A labyrinth is an ancient device that compresses a journey into a small space, winds up a path like thread on a spool. It contains beginning, confusion, perseverance, arrival, and return. There at last the metaphysical journey of your life and your actual movements are one and the same. You may wander, may learn that in order to get to your destination you must turn away from it, become lost, spin about, and then only after the way has become overwhelming and absorbing, arrive, having gone the great journey without having gone far on the ground.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

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