She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.