“We are wasting time, pleads Greta, by passing this burden, this sack of stones, from one to the next, by pushing our pain away. We mustn’t do this. We mustn’t play Hot Potato with our pain. Let’s absorb it ourselves, each of us, she says. Let’s inhale it, let’s digest it, let’s process it into fuel.”
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“When you don’t complete a cycle of action it’s because you cannot see the good in it.”
“Those skills were unexplainable, and using them only stirred questions and concerns.”
“Every action that we take exacts a cost and produces consequences. Nothing can be undone.”
“The little step, long continued—the very gradual but persistent advance—is sure to attain its end.”