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Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

William P. Young

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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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William Young
William Paul Young
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The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.
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I don't just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.
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It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...
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I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.
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It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
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I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
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It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.
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There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.
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The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.
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Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.
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City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.
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The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.
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I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.
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Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.
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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly... And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.
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But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.
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Why would the God of the universe want to be submitted to me?' Because we want you to join us in our circle of relationship. I don't want slaves to my will I want brothers and sisters who will share life with me.
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Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.
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