2024: The Best of What I Read
I didn’t set out to find answers this year, but some books had other plans. These are the best passages I read in 2024 — just fragments, ideas, and turns of phrase that stuck in my mind.
The Path To The Power You Never Lost
No one can save you from yourself—or your consequences. When you hand over responsibility for your mental, emotional, or spiritual state to someone else, you give away your power. You give away your God. You choose helplessness. And in that helplessness, a limited, fearful, power-hungry world takes control of your life.
Autumn, If You Keep Leaving Me, I’ll Keep Loving You
Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.
All of the colors shining in your face.
November flush and your flannel cure.
A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
20 One-Liners from Showtime’s Couples Therapy You Won’t Forget
Sometimes a single sentence, a one-liner, aimed at your heart, teaches you more than a book. Couples Therapy on Showtime is a vault of these lines, from both sides of the coffee table. Over four seasons, we get to see what happens when people are in enough pain to drop their guard and say what they really mean.
Man is Condemned To Be Free
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. Depression is not a dysfunction; it is a functioning of the soul that asks you to turn inward.
When the Mask of Accomplishment Slips
The problem for the overachiever is that your compulsive accomplishment is camouflaging self-loathing and insecurity. And, when it’s your sole source of value, you can never stop running because, like any addiction, over time, you will need more and more accomplishment just to feel mediocre.