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Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.


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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.



I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.



Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.



Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.



... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]



Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.



Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.



Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.



I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.



Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.





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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

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Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.



Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!



All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.



You are only as big as the dreams you dare to live.

You are only as big as the dreams you dare to live.



Forest deep, silent bells There's a secret no one tells Valley quiet, water still Lynburns watching on the hill Apples red, corn gold Almost everyone grows old

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The best cure for anger is delay.

The best cure for anger is delay.



Either i've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.

Either i've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.



And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.

And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.




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