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"Perception of the miraculous requires no faith or assumptions. It is
simply a matter of paying full and close attention to the givens of life, i.e., to what is so ever-present that it is usually taken for granted. "

I am in tears after I read the story of Theodore. In a way, I'm experiencing a similar loss of enthusiasm as Theodore did. "Having worked through the pain”, the book described this process easily. Yet I have not. My brain associates institutional religion and missionaries with danger and intense pain. But I can't deny the fact that deep in me I am attracted to Christianity. Thus I'm in the middle going back and forth

"There's no such thing as good hand-me-down religion. To be vital, to be the best of which we are capable, our religion must be a wholly personal one, forged entirely through the fire of our questioning and doubting in the crucifiable of our own experience of reality."

“You have a religion, a more profound one. You worship the truth. You believe in the possibility of your growth and betterment; the possibility of spiritual progress. In the strength of your religion, you are willing to suffer the pains of challenges and the agonies of unlearning.” Oh, I am in tears.