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"In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you."
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"Granny Weatherwax had a primal snore. It had never been tamed. No one had ever had to sleep next to it, to curb its wilder excesses by means of a kick, a prod in the small of the back, or a pillow used as a bludgeon. It had had years in a lonely bedroom to perfect the knark, the graaah, and the gnoc, gnoc, gnoc unimpeded by the nudges, jabs, and occasional attempts at murder that usually moderate the snore impulse over time."
"Oh, once you've been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn't want you back. Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. "We-by whom I mean anyone over sixty-commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman's memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight."
"I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to."
"Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further."
"You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic."
"The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned."
"You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure."
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"The Church, as Jesus seems to be defining it, is the gathering of accepted brokenness. It's not the gathering of the saved."
"Organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries."
"You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life."
"I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic."
"When you get your, 'Who am I?', question right, all of your, 'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves"
"The people who know God well - mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator."
"I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona."
"True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude."
"The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history."
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