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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“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

“At night you lie on your soft sleeping bag listening to the trees and wind talking to the night while the stars spin their slow but constant dervish.”
― 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

“Is maith an scáthán súil charad!” Juniper replied ruefully. “A friend’s eye is a good mirror!”
― Dies the Fire
― Dies the Fire

“(In Catholic universities, a doctorate in theology is not referred to as a PhD but as an STD, Doctor of Sacred Theology. It’s an unfortunate name for a degree. It must be hard for someone’s mother to say, “I’m so proud of my little boy. He went to seminary and got an STD.”)”
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
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