“If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.”
― The Mermaid Chair
― The Mermaid Chair
“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
― Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
― Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Continually trying to look on the bright side interferes with our finding the wisdom that lies in the fruitful darkness. Continually striving upward toward the light means we never grow downward into our own feet, never become firmly rooted on the earth, never explore the darkness within and around us, a darkness without whose existence the light would have no meaning.”
― The Fasting Path: For Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical Healing and Renewal
― The Fasting Path: For Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical Healing and Renewal
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
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Jerry’s 2025 Year in Books
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