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[regarding Satan, in Paradise Lost:] Persisting in his striving and clinging to self-deception, he loses his ability to take joy in his own original goodness and in the goodness of the world and robs himself of the possibility of redemption.

"To rest transparently means to be at one with ourselves in relationship to another--the way we are at one with ourselves when we are engrossed in music or when we are in the flow while working on something we love. We are healthy, Kierkegaard states, when we are willing to be ourselves by being at one with ourselves in relationship with the God in whom we have our being and before whom we live." (p. 38)

This is the exact kind of book I need at this time.