This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.

God dwells within you, as you.

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.