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@aahrens430 @pauljpastor Echoes everywhere: Saroyan, "Good people are good because they come to wisdom through failure." @RichardRohrOFM: “I doubt if there is any other way. All the rest is mere self-validation.” Meister Eckhart: "We are made perfect by what happens to us, not by what we do."

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 25 Nov 2021

end/ “We come to God through our imperfection, through our wrongness, not our rightness. Bill Wilson got that." @RichardRohrOFM. And Sr. Joan Chittister: “The beauty of a life lies in its fullness, not in a preferred portion that looks superficially positive and wholesome.”

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Quoted by@Harpers @RichardRohrOFM end\ Nothing in Meghan's luminous telling makes self-destruction beautiful. The beauty is in a life becoming more whole through what it cannot resolve or master. Perhaps grace is precisely this: woundedness neither denied nor enthroned, but opened toward a healing forever gifted.