i just started reading blue like jazz. i'd hear numerous people tell me how great it was and finally got around to buying it. i'm only through chapter two but already a handful of pages are dog eared. here are a few quotes that made me stop and think:
"sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. it is as if they are showing you the way."
"i believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time."
"i think every conscious person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality, has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group think, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself."
"for a moment, sitting there above the city, i imagined life outside of narcissism. i wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. i wondered at how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention. i wondered what it would be like not to live in a house of mirrors, everywhere i go being reminded of myself."
okay, i'm off the the grocery store to buy hansen's diet ginger soda. i'm addicted and craving it badly enough to make a special trip. yum.
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Favorite Quotes
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” - Jack Kerouac
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls." - Mother Teresa
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls." - Mother Teresa
1 comment:
ahhhh!! i am so glad you are reading it! donald miller is a genius.... here are a few of my favs that are highlighted in my book:
This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a mans mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God.
The soul of a man, unwatched, is perverse
Christian spirituality was not a childrens story. It wasnt cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean and it was reaching into dirty... (LOVE THAT!)
Satan is at work in the cults of the Third World, the economic chaos in Argentina, and the corporate driven greed of American corporate executives!!!!! (Whoa! That one really got to me....I see it every day!)
And the best one:
The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is a story about me
This is seriously such a good book. I think I want to read it again.....
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