“You don't have to go to Mass if you can tell me the one thing that you are going to do while I am at church with all your brothers that is more important than going to church and thanking God for another week of life”
― Resisting Happiness
― Resisting Happiness
“be kind because everyone you’ll ever meet is fighting a hard battle.” Wow. What a fabulous insight.”
― Resisting Happiness
― Resisting Happiness
“Knowing that death is not far off brings remarkable clarity. After that news, there is no middle ground; something is either very important or not important at all.”
― Resisting Happiness
― Resisting Happiness
“Addiction in all its forms, large and small, serious and less serious (no addiction is trivial), is one of the central themes of our lives. Identifying our own addictions of thought and action is part of each person’s spiritual journey. Food, control, talking too much, work, sex, pornography, alcohol, drugs, always being right, noise, negative thinking, negative humor, skepticism, cynicism, minimalism…the list is varied and endless. It doesn’t matter what it is for you, and it doesn’t matter what it is for me. What matters is how we respond.”
― Resisting Happiness
― Resisting Happiness
“It is perhaps the result of a culture that prefers us to be passive. The passive me says: “Feed me”; “Entertain me”; “Hold me”; “Love me”; “Listen to me”; “Tell me I matter”; “Make me a priority”; “Don’t make me think too much or work too hard”; and so”
― Resisting Happiness
― Resisting Happiness
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