Quotes from David Rhodes

We are all connected in ways we cannot even begin to fathom. Our lives unfold through each other and within each other. What one suffers, we all feel. What one does changes others forever.

We are not separate, and I want you to know that. We are all part of one thing, and nothing good has ever passed or ever can pass away. There is no way out, but there is a way in, and when one person feels lonely like a ghost it touches us all.

Telling the truth is always wrong if it threatens those for whom being wrong can never be true.

Winnie would never be free of religious thinking, and she couldn't imagine ever wanting to be. She just needed a new schedule for her faith, one whose appointments with the divine were arranged not only through sermons, songs, and scripture, but rather on a walk-in basis with rocks, water, air, blood, space, and time.

You show how much you love someone by being there for them when they need you, by knowing what they need and anticipating those needs.

He was inefficient in the old sense of the word; not incapable, but unwilling to be seduced by work--unwilling to be singleminded. Those things that needed to be done were constantly put off for those things that needed to be thought about. And unfinished projects did not pester him to be completed, but represented, in themselves, thoughts he had not finished thinking....

He] accepted me for what I was and it wasn't fair of him not to give me the same chance to accept him in the same way.

Winnie trusted in the possibility of redemption. Life would not end in an apoplectic implosion of frustrated desires, foiled schemes, and defeated dreams, but rather in revealed glory.

she also tended to see strangers not as individuals but as representatives of types. It was as though people did not walk around in the world as themselves, but as examples of kinds of people, the majority of whom they had never met.

Mourning the passing of their youth made them jealous of young people and resentful of all the things young people do. Consequently, she and other old people inclined to remember themselves in childhood not as children but as miniature adults and their parents as patron saints of irreproachable stature. They did not recollect ever stepping outside the margins and viewed willfulness in modern children as a sign of emerging pathology.

The things that wound us are the most important things we know

Depression-era memories. They could easily recall events—and spoke of them in earnest detail—that occurred before electricity, telephones, and interstate highways.

The name Wisconsin is believed by some to be a derivation of the word Wishkonsing, place of the beaver.)

The roof leaked and the toilet flushed with the kind of diminished enthusiasm that often precedes serious septic difficulties. She

Jerseys were for people who were afraid to milk Holsteins and too ashamed to milk goats.

listen for the intention of what people say and ignore the words.

What good is freedom, Mrs. Helm, if you never do anything unusual or odd? That's what freedom means—doing whatever you need to do so long as nobody else is hurt by it. That's what you were talking about before, doing things that conflict with your sense of yourself in other rooms of your mind. You have to be able to do that or you're not really alive.

It could mean that some unknowable Spirit ruled the world & directed his actions, or perhaps that he had simply been lucky. Perhaps it meant that the avoidance motive - fear - should be ignored in all-important matters. The Room of Vital Wisdom may be empty, he thought, but shut should not prevent us from going inside.

The dead forever change the living.

human beings we have the obligation to transcend law through mercy. If we all had to live by the law, we would all be condemned—all of us. It is only by showing compassion and mercy that we create a better world.

Contrary to what you may think, the legal system was neither founded upon nor designed to reflect the common decency found in normal human relationships. It primarily works like the rules for a lunatic asylum. It tries to govern people driven insane by the inflated idea of their own worth.