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Good golly this book is bleak.

Back to this one again. Found the audiobook on Spotify!

Good golly that was some ending! I almost cried.

I don't want to finish :')

OMGGGGGG I have not been so affected by a book in a while ❤️

I can't believe that just happened. I don't even want to keep reading anymore :'(

Why is everyone dying .....again 😭

Examine a person closely enough, and you know more about him than he does himself.

I think I love this

Holy space suspense!

I'm two and a half hours in, only 6% through, and finding this book SO BORING AND SOULLESS. Strange because it feels like the opposite of the first Mistborn book.

OMG the drama

“You know,” said Arthur thoughtfully, “all this explains a lot of things. All through my life I’ve had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was.”
“No,” said the old man, “that’s just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”

As Joseph Chilton Pearce writes, “What we are teaches the child more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

I’m not going to practically knock myself unconscious with a shaming eye roll about your nonorganic milk if I feel good about what I’m feeding my children. But if doubt lurks beneath my choices, that self-righteous critic will spring to life in moments that happen because my underlying fear of not being the perfect parent is driving my need to confirm that, at the very least, I’m better than you.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children. After all, we rarely engage in self-righteous judgment when we feel confident about our decisions:

certainty often breeds absolutes, intolerance, and judgment

It’s uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It’s uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle. When you identify the discomfort, you’ve found the place where a leader is needed. If you’re not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it’s almost certain you’re not reaching your potential as a leader.”

when I feel self-righteous, it means I’m afraid. It’s a way to puff up and protect myself when I’m afraid of being wrong, making someone angry, or getting blamed.

Here’s the best way to think about the relationship between shame and blame: If blame is driving, shame is riding shotgun. In organizations, schools, and families, blaming and finger-pointing are often symptoms of shame.

...Before we even sit up in bed, before our feet touch the floor, we’re already inadequate, already behind, already losing, already lacking. And by the time we go to bed at night, our minds are racing with a litany of what we didn’t get, or didn’t get done. This internal condition of scarcity, this mind-set of scarcity, lives at the very heart of our jealousies, our greed, our prejudice, and our arguments with life,

For me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is “I didn’t get enough sleep.” The next one is “I don’t have enough time.” Whether true or not, that thought of not enough occurs to us automatically before we even think to question or examine it. We spend most of the hours and the days of our lives hearing, explaining, complaining, or worrying about what we don’t have enough of.…

Megan Follows has a DELICIOUS voice!

Many people prefer to walk along traditional pilgrim routes, following in the steps of countless other people. I believe it is possible to turn any favourite walk into a pilgrimage, however big or little you want to make it. It could be a circular walk, a walk to a favourite destination or building, a singing walk or a silent meditation, alone or with others.

Heaven forbid that any other creature should be allowed to inconvenience the masters and possessors of nature. We'd kill them rather than let them have the leavings in our dustbins. We live in barren, lonely sterility. Wipe out entire species, create for ourselves a world occupied only by humans, rather than suffer such indignity.

Here's the thing about enchantment: it doesn't require magic, but it certainly requires attention. Enchantment isn't about magical thinking, it's about being fully present in the world.