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Love recklessly
Some quotes on love and forgiveness from Francis Spufford’s recent book Unapologetic: If someone asks for your help, give them more than they’ve asked for. If someone hits out at you, let them. Don’t...
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Very bad news for competitive blokes
Some admittedly rather varied passages from Julian Barnes’s book Nothing to Be Frightened Of: The notion of redefining the deity into something that works for you is grotesque. Here’s one that made me...
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Suffering and transformation
Transformed life can only be found through confusion, struggle, literal and metaphorical deaths because we understand only from within the constellation of our present suffering. Mark Vernon in Third...
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The forgotten astonishment
the invisible walls, the rotten masks that divide one man from another, one man from himself, they crumble for one enormous moment and we glimpse the unity that we lost, the desolation of being man,...
View ArticleLove of life, heart and being, the downward drag of gravity, hope during an...
Another book that I find truly inspiring and refreshing is John O’Donohue’s The Four Elements. Here are some extracts from three of his poems quoted by his brother Pat in the foreword. From ‘In Praise...
View ArticleOn death and life; surrender and buoyancy; hope, memory, dream and words
I thought I would add some reflections on yesterday’s quotes from John O’Donohue’s poems. As air intensifies the hunger of fire, May the thought of death Breathe new urgency Into our love of life....
View ArticleAnger points to life
Fire is often used to portray anger. Anger burns and blazes. It inflames the human heart. But it can also be a subtle presence. It can turn totally inward and become depression. It can also hide under...
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