"Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise."

-- Rob Bell

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“I love you just the way you are but you don't see you like I do. You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.”
“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
“Thereâ€™s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if youâ€™re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Donâ€™t wait for anybody to tell you itâ€™s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. Thatâ€™s your job.”
“Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.”
“Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.”
“Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.”
“There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.”
“Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.”

Source : "Book World: 'The Bridge at the Edge of the World'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2008.

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