Michelle Laughran > Recent Status Updates

Since Goodreads is now just a branch of Amazon, I’m thinking of switching my social reading app to “Bookself” (https://bookself.app/)

Always used to do the reading challenge, but Goodreads is now part of Amazon and I’m less enthused as a result. Need to find a good independent substitute for Goodreads...

“... even our attachment to the precious life of Jesus that we protect so carefully a surety against personal deflation & fear.”

“The message of this gospel [of John] is this early in congruent with our modern culture of self-absorbed, self- potentiating, self-proclaiming individuality. But it does harmonize with the Mahāyāna anthropology of emptiness — another kind of via negativa, before & perhaps beyond a Christian apophatic tradition of unknowing. It goes beyond evaluating knowledge of God to make it even or attachment to “me & mine...”

“The message of this gospel [of John] is this early in congruent with our modern culture of self-absorbed, self- potentiating, self-proclaiming individuality. But it does harmonize with the Mahāyāna anthropology of emptiness — another kind of via negativa, before & perhaps beyond a Christian apophatic tradition of unknowing. It goes beyond evaluating knowledge of God to make it even or attachment to “me & mine...”

“The message of this gospel [of John] is this early in congruent with our modern culture of self-absorbed, self-potentiating, self-proclaiming individuality. But it does harmonize with the Mahāyāna anthropology of emptiness — another kind of via negativa, before and perhaps beyond a Christian apophatic tradition of unknowing.”

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“He glanced at his watch, which was designed for the kind of rich deep-sea diver who likes to know what the time is in twenty-one world capitals while he’s down there.” 😁

“If aspects of the person remain undigested—cut off, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated—they become the points around which the core forces of greed, hatred, and delusion attach themselves.”

“While the Western tradition has grown quite adept at describing what has been called the narcissistic dilemma—the sense of falseness or emptiness that propels people either to idealize or to devalue themselves and others—much controversy has risen over the psychoanalytic method’s applicability for such problems.”