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Monica Furlong Quotes

If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.

If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.

Monica Furlong
Envy, Would Be, Sin
Monica Furlong (1982). “Christian Uncertainties”

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

Monica Furlong
Children, Giving Up, Ideas

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

Monica Furlong
Done, Chance, Confession
Monica Furlong (1982). “Christian Uncertainties”

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

Monica Furlong
Hurt, Bishops, Used

resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

Monica Furlong
Self, Whole, Resisting
Monica Furlong (1986). “Genuine fake: a biography of Alan Watts”, Vintage

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