Lovely phrase the weapons of the spirit. The power you get from your belief in god. And at the end of the day, nothing can beat that. I tell a story bat about a william who on the strength of her faith forgives the murderer of heir daughter. The last story in the book is about a village in the mountains of france, a protestant village, that openly takes in jews during the Second World War in complete defiance of the nazis. And theres no mystery why. Two sets of people who have no external material advantage. They have no formal power. They had no money. They had nothing. But what they have is something in their hearts that says, i am empowered by god to do the right thing. And thats enough. And its very both uplifting and also kind of i was very writing this book moved me in a way that writing my previous books did not for that very fact. Just by the end i was to sit in the backyard of a womans a little bungalow in winnipeg and talk to a woman whose daughter was murdered brutally by a
“The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.” -Mahesh Babu
When you know something is there but you can't find it for yourself, it makes the search all the more maddening. Yet this exactly was the case for Charles Messier, hunting a catalogued object by a colleague of his for fourteen years before he finally found it!
"Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious." -Gordon Gee
Twenty years ago, our Solar System was the only one we knew of that we were certain had planets orbiting around a main-sequence star.