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I love the chapter on anger and the figurative way he talks about honey as fragrant and not just being civil towards the smells from honey that we like but also giving the non-fragrant milk the same respect even if we don’t agree with it. Deeper, he discusses how this forms a gentle virtue. Life and spiritual advice all in one!!

I also learned more about the symbolism of the chrism oil!

Loved the inward humility chapter. I feel like there are some sentences that don’t make sense to me but the ones that do are so profound. He really is telling us that what is most important is that what we say about how we act needs to match our actions even if our actions and thoughts are not the best. Honest self evaluation.

As I read, I keep thinking, “I wish I’d read this in high school!” Or “I really needed to hear this YEARS ago…” but would I have really integrated the advice from this book if I had heard it in high school? Probably not…