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Preaching had been projecting out, imposing himself on the world, with the world then projecting onto him. But tending to the lighthouse—that was a way of looking inward and it felt less arrogant.
“Don’t let them ask questions. You’re already giving them the answers, even if they don’t know it.”
Perhaps a copy could also be superior to the original, create a new reality by avoiding old mistakes.
“The operational damage from an event can linger in the mind like a ghost.”
Freedom could take you farther from what you sought, not closer.
Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms.
Sometimes, too, pain comes at you unexpectedly; you don’t have to generate it, don’t have to will it consciously upon yourself. It’s just there.
should be less honest.” “There’s that, too.” His father could have been less honest, because honesty was often just a way of being cruel.
“Sometimes you need to know when to go on to the next thing—for the sake of other people.”
But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there’s defiance in that, too.
