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Be mindful that your guilt is useless unless you allow it to evolve into something more meaningful […] Guilt is always a crossroad. It can be a gateway to consciousness, or we can obsess over what we have done, wallow in our guilt, use it as an excuse not to grow, and fixate on the idea that we deserve punishment rather than seeing our guilt as a signpost pointing us toward the true path.

Matthew Kelly (The Rocking Chair Prophet, pages 85, 85-86)

Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice

Desecrated Host

Toxic

Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (translated by Carol Brown Janeway)

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Andonis Anemoyannis, 1902

Suffering