So let us not pretend we are worse or…
Page 133. So let us not pretend we are worse or better off than we actually are. We are born into a uniquely compromised position somewhere between amoebas and angels but we have the chance to work through it.
— from Before Takeoff (front matter) · Sick Souls, Healthy Minds- How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag
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I want you to hold two true things at once. We are born, as one writer put it, into a uniquely compromised position somewhere between the amoebas and the angels — and we get the whole of a life to work our way upward from there. At the same time, God handed each of us something astonishing: the same unchanging building blocks of the world that have been here since creation, and the unique ability to look at those blocks and shape them into combinations that have never existed before. — Before Takeoff (front matter)