Part 2: Disclosures and Decisions
Do I dare
Disturb the universe
— T.S. Elliot
I want to be two people at once.
One runs away.
― Peter Heller
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Epilogue: A Word to Readers
For one reason or the other, you’ve read Yielding to Yes – and you’ve now reached its end. The question is: What now? Where to go from here? I'd like to offer a brief closing word to a few specific readers: the Christian, the Queer person (and/
Part 12: Beyond Belonging
What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. — T.S. Elliot According to Master Linji the miracle is not to walk on water or in thin air, but to walk on Earth.
Part 11: Participating in the Paradox
It’s so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. — Anne Lemott Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics. — Charles Péguy The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others. — Carl Jung I laugh when I hear
Part 10: Theologian Turned Timothy
I crawled out the window and ran into the woods. I had to make up all the words myself. The way they taste, the way they sound in the air. I passed through the narrow gate, stumbled in, stumbled around for awhile, and stumbled back out. I made this place