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Thin Places

Book by Kerri Ní Dochartaigh · 3 quotes · Loss, Faith, Grief

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“Naming things, in the language that should always have been offered to you, is a way to sculpt loss. A way to protect that which we still have.”

Language Loss Healing Identity Trauma Silenced Loss Of Language

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“Grief is a country that has no definite borderlines and that recognises no single trajectory. It is a space that did not exist before your loss, and that will never disappear from your map, no matter how hard you rub at the charcoal lines. You are changed utterly, and your personal geography becomes yours and yours only.”

Loss Grief Liminal Spaces

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“My stubborn, self-savvy heart will not reach for the sky if my earth becomes everything I need. If people fill me up then where is my need for the transcendent? If everything is glory and beauty and sweetness and light, will I be the type of soul that reaches to Jesus?”

People Religion Faith Jesus Relationships Need Stubborn Transcendence Struggles

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