It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure about who we are – or who anyone else is either.
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“Is maith an scáthán súil charad!” Juniper replied ruefully. “A friend’s eye is a good mirror!”
― Dies the Fire
― Dies the Fire
“We should always be grateful to people who disagree with us. At the very least, they sharpen us as a stone sharpens a knife. At best, they wake us up to how stunning the beliefs we profess actually are.”
― The Creed in Slow Motion: An exploration of faith, phrase by phrase, word by word
― The Creed in Slow Motion: An exploration of faith, phrase by phrase, word by word
“When you spend time on your own away from society you find, upon your return, much of the human-created world appears tawdry and low class, common—like a cheap trinket, or worse.”
― Walking Man: The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher
― Walking Man: The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher
“He was an autodidact, and gave himself the education he needed.”
― Walking Man: The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher
― Walking Man: The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher
“If you have to farm, the Willamette is about the best place in the world to do it.”
― The Protector's War
― The Protector's War
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