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This book is one of the foundational texts for MFT’s

A great starting point for people curious about some of theories that Marriage and Family Therapists may operate out of.

“It took Doc longer to go places than other people. He didn’t drive fast and he stopped and ate hamburgers very often.”

“The street is silent of progress and business.”

“It is a time of great peace, a deserted time, a little era of rest.”

“It is the hour of the pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”

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“Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be a vulgarity—like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.”

Discovering my “inner monk”

I decided to partake in the hype.

Reading with a man who quotes Lewis in probably 95% of his sermons.

“I abandoned you to pursue the lowest things of your creation. I was dust going to dust.”

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Might have just found a new genre of books I want to tap into more.

AI before AI

"And in truth, is there anything in the world more captivating than a beautiful young mother with a healthy baby in her arms?"

Returning to Russian Lit with David Price!

The Bible is epic.

Reading this with Donny Lee!

“Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day.”

Is this true of Montana Ezra?

“Again my attitude may be informed by love, but it seemed to me that the towns were places to live in rather than nervous hives. People had time to pause in their occupations to undertake the passing art of neighborliness.”

Some of what life post college feels like:

“Three times a week from some bar, supermarket, or tire-and-tool cluttered service station, I put calls through to New York and reestablish my identity in time and space. For three or four minutes I had a name, and the duties and joys and frustrations a man carries with him like a comet’s tail.”

“…unpressured time—time to sit on stone walls, time to see beauty, time to stare as long as sheep and cows.”

“We wished to know, to savour, to sink in—into the heart of the experience—to possess it wholly.”

“Love shone forth from her; and love not only begets love, it transmits strength.”

“…So we laughed and joked and poured out the wine but challenged their minds and souls. And the students smiled and abandoned the solemn voices they had been taught to use in speaking about such things, gaily drinking the wine and discovering a Christ who was a blazing reality.”

“Without feelings as our compass in the territory of close relationships, we are effectively lost.”

“We know it’s love that keeps a love secure,
And only by love of love can love endure,
For self’s a killer, reckless of the cost,
And loves of lilactime unloved are lost”

Was recommended to read this before beginning grad school. A book on Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT). It’s all about adult attachment bonds.

“to turn to others for emotional support is a sign and source of strength.”
“Love is not the icing on the cake of life. It is a basic primary need, like oxygen or water.”

Read a good portion of this book last spring. It wasn’t the best time for me to tackle this book. In this gap year, I decided I’d give it another shot.

“To be in love, as to see beauty, is a kind of adoring that turns the lover away from self.”

“We talked about the good life, the life without the pressure of time.”

15 pages in and this is delightful.
“We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
“What is beauty but something that is responded to with emotion?”
“Sometimes they would walk as much as twenty miles, or ride even further, and then come home to dive into the pool, not bothering with suits, and eat an enormous breakfast.”