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Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps

by Richard Rohr

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Feb 16, 2024 07:08AM

“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Art of Mending

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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

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