Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.”
February, 1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
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“I am such a slow learner that once I understand something I might as well write it down!”
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“I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.”
Variant: I think I need to face
what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.
Source: Where Rainbows End

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