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All night I have bad dreams about severed hands. In one I’m eating chili and a hand comes out of my bowl and gives me the thumbs-down.
“The basic error of fundamentalism is that it overlooks the contribution of the receptive side in the revelatory situation and consequently identifies one individual and conditioned form of receiving the divine with the divine itself.”
― Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality
― Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality
“After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.”
― QB VII
― QB VII
“And I remind myself that wherever one finds oneself, home and love is lent to each of us only for a while. We must care for it while it's ours, and cherish its memory once it's gone.”
― The Housemaid's Daughter
― The Housemaid's Daughter
“Sin? What is sin inside the dynamic of family relationships? It is a mystery that began with man. No one can solve it except through his own unique experience. How you feel is human. But do not think it will leave you alone. We are never free of our blood.”
― Redemption: Three Extraordinary Irish Families on an Epic Odyssey of Love and Freedom in WWI
― Redemption: Three Extraordinary Irish Families on an Epic Odyssey of Love and Freedom in WWI
“It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could have easily have been found already written in a book: but it is a hundred times more valuable if you have arrived at it by thinking for yourself. For only then will it enter your thought system as an integral part and living member, be perfectly and firmly consistent with it and in accord with all its other consequences and conclusions, bear the hue, colour and stamp of your whole manner of thinking, and have arrived at just the moment it was needed ; thus it will stay firmly and forever lodged in your mind.”
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Thomas’s 2025 Year in Books
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