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The answer, he told me, was to be found in reading. Can it be that simple? It was books, he said, that made him a better man. He found greatness through reading and would often mention Irish authors, in particular George Bernard Shaw.
W. B. Yeats was there a hundred years ago in his poem “The Second Coming”: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”
If he’d been written in fiction, his character would not have been believable, but, fortunately for us, this magnificent man actually existed.
Struggling to express how every day that we give to each other adds both weight and…weightlessness. Gravity and grace.
have the most to learn from this relationship, and one of the profoundest lessons it has taught me is in raising children.
I slowly understood that you can’t have a child and remain a child.
I really don’t like goodbyes, but sometimes you have to say goodbye. Even to yourself.
Carl Jung observed that the very things that made you successful in the first half of your life not only no longer work for you in the second half; they positively work against you.
“It’s our strengths rather than our weaknesses that often hold us back.”
Franciscan friar Richard Rohr
