April 27, 2018
Perhaps if we kept more fully our desert watches—stayed longer where the pain is—we would be different when we left the wilderness. As it is, we often have learned very little and so are destined to suffer in the same ways again. – O’Connor, Our Many Selves
April 26, 2018
If you dare risk it, ask someone for a critical evaluation of something which is important to you, but do not do this carelessly or without inner preparation. It may be more painful than you would guess. – O’Connor, Our Many Selves
April 25, 2018
What you criticize in another, try to find in yourself. We want to discover our dark selves, not In order that they may be condemned and banished out of sight, but in order that we may have conversation with them and they may lead us to the light. This is the promise if we will […]
April 24, 2018
If I respect the plurality in myself, and no longer see my jealous self as the whole of me, then I have gained the distance I need to observe it, listen to it, and let it acquaint me with a piece of my own lost history. In this way I come into possession of more […]