"As I read through it, there were sentences that leapt off the page for me, as things very pertinent to me in the moment that I wanted to keep in the forefront of my mind, and I would write them down on index cards to use as daily prompters about who I wanted to be, and how I could always make a choice about how I acted, responded, reacted. Later on, done with the book (for then, at least), I had a stack of a dozen or so — and I wove them together into that paragraph. So the paragraph contains both direct and indirect quotes from throughout the book, tweaked into a flowing compilation that worked for me."
And "the God of the title and book is not a Christian god, or of any religion. Being unreligious myself (but nonetheless wholely thankful and aware of the greater life force), I was relieved to discover this."
More about the book. Allyson told me:
ReplyDelete"As I read through it, there were sentences that leapt off the page for me, as things very pertinent to me in the moment that I wanted to keep in the forefront of my mind, and I would write them down on index cards to use as daily prompters about who I wanted to be, and how I could always make a choice about how I acted, responded, reacted. Later on, done with the book (for then, at least), I had a stack of a dozen or so — and I wove them together into that paragraph. So the paragraph contains both direct and indirect quotes from throughout the book, tweaked into a flowing compilation that worked for me."
And "the God of the title and book is not a Christian god, or of any religion. Being unreligious myself (but nonetheless wholely thankful and aware of the greater life force), I was relieved to discover this."