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“To be willing and accepting means noticing that you are the sky, not the clouds; the ocean, not the waves. It means noticing that you are large enough to contain all of your experiences, just as the sky can contain any cloud and the ocean any wave.”

“I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be a part of that process, all you can do is transform—or at least, distort—yourself through that persistent repetition and make that process apart of your own personality.”

“The shame in her eyes met no answering reproach in his.”

“Finally, as a gift, as a mercy, I remember to pray, ‘Thy will be done,’ and then again I am free and can go to sleep.”

“I began to trust the world again, not to give me what I wanted, for I saw that it could not be trusted to do that, but to give me unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want.”
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“But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog’s ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read.”