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Karen Armstrong · 2004
Sequence ladder
Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.
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What this book knows
Leaving the convent damages a mind before it can rebuild one; recovery is scholarship, seizure, and slowly learning what belief actually is.
faith-and-doubt
For years it seemed a hard, Lenten journey, but without the prospect of Easter. I toiled round and round in pointless circles, yet all the time, without realizing it, I was climbing.
ARM-SS-RC-013Did I really believe there was a Being up there responsible for everything? No, I did not. Not only did it seem highly unlikely, but the idea was also grotesque.
ARM-SS-RC-104trauma-and-survival
I had never before had any problems of concentration, but to my intense distress I found that I could not keep my mind on God for two minutes.
ARM-SS-RC-046Could you behave like that indefinitely, without inflicting real and lasting damage on your mind? I realized that my mind no longer worked freely.
ARM-SS-RC-042I had spent years now fighting with demons, and the struggle had pushed me to an extreme. It was good to have people looking after me, instead of telling me briskly I was fine.
ARM-SS-RC-115self-and-identity
My problem was that I had no thoughts of my own at all. Every time I tried to think, I found only emptiness.
ARM-SS-RC-044Illuminates
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