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“Perhaps we are the weak ones, and God comes to us inwardly only because we have failed to perceive him in the crying child, in the nail driven cleanly into the wood, in the ordinary dawn sun that merely to see clearly is sufficient prayer and praise.”

Somehow I haven’t tracked this on Goodreads? This is probably my 4th time through. I like to reread it before I start first-drafting a new book to try to harness some of Bradbury’s magic.

I mean, this might be one of my top ten favorite novels. Checks all the boxes for me. Really enjoying this reread.

It’s wild to get a glimpse at how many decades of research and study, how many millions of dollars of funding, and how many smart men and women from multiple disciples worked together to build the AI we know today….and now some guy can make anonymous cat videos on Facebook and get millions of views.

So far so fun, although the whole time I’m just imagining Doctor Strange and Bilbo Baggins running around London, which isn’t so bad I guess.

Burnt Norton, III

“Distracted from distraction by distraction.”

- life in 2024

“O my dear son, / there may be pain here, but there is no death.”

Canto XXVII

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Well, it’s only up from here.

“It is important for us to realize that when Jesus says, “It is accomplished,”he does not simply mean, ‘I have done all the things I wanted to do.’ He also means ‘I have allowed things to be done to me that needed to be done to me in order for me to fulfill my vocation.’” -Henri Nouwen, Day 33

“First, as the Greek Stoics affirmed, and as is evident throughout Christian spirituality, true friendship is only possible among people who are practicing virtue.”

Wish me luck…

“Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.”

I’ve got too many books going, but am excited to start this. Had to get this quote down from the introduction:

“Rather than blame things for being obscure, we should blame ourselves for being biased and prisoners of self-induced repetitiveness.”

Book of the year contender for me so far, and I’ve only just begun!

“Few men have souls so dead that they will not bother to look up when they hear the barking of wild Geese.” - pg. 37

“Is selecting stones in the creek bed not the best spiritual life possible?”

Got about 170 pages in, but it’s just not working for me. I’m going to try the next one though, because I’ve heard good things.

This is one of about ten books I read as a young teenager. Let’s see if it holds up twenty years later…

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Started this on audiobook at 1.5 speed, then remembered what it was about...