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I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change. — Kathleen Norris

The fact that one people's frontier is usually another's homeland has been mostly overlooked. — Kathleen Norris

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it. — Kathleen Norris

Who can be good, if not made so by loving? - St. Augustine — Kathleen Norris

Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are. — Kathleen Norris

Being closed in makes us edgy because it reminds us of our vulnerability before the elements; we can't escape the fact that life is precarious. — Kathleen Norris

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things. — Kathleen Norris

From Return of Swamp Thing
It's the old impasse:
I don't know what to wait for. — Kathleen Norris

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the
delusion that the daily is of little significance. — Kathleen Norris

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life. — Kathleen Norris

All of cleanliness is neither embraced nor denied by the taking of cold baths. — Kathleen Norris

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy? — Kathleen Norris

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world. — Kathleen Norris

An old farmer once asked my husband and me how long we'd been in the country. "Five years," we answered. "Well, then," he said, "you've seen rain. — Kathleen Norris

Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind. — Kathleen Norris

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. — Kathleen Norris

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being. — Kathleen Norris

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas. — Kathleen Norris

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead. — Kathleen Norris

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves. — Kathleen Norris

And a lot he knows about office work, not. — Kathleen Norris

Listening to Jeremiah is one hell of a way to get your blood going in the morning; it puts caffeine to shame. — Kathleen Norris

Well, they tell us meat isn't good for us anyway! — Kathleen Norris

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. — Kathleen Norris

Peace - that was the other name for home. — Kathleen Norris

Anyone who listens to the world, anyone who seeks the sacred in the ordinary events of life, has problems about how to believe. — Kathleen Norris

The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them. — Kathleen Norris

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found. — Kathleen Norris

...Juliana. Should you cease to exist, so would I. — Kathleen Collins

I write what I would like to read. — Kathleen Norris

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,
service is the secret. — Kathleen Norris

... religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can't be purchased like a burger or a pair of shoes. — Kathleen Norris

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom. — Kathleen Norris

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion. — Kathleen Norris

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. — Kathleen Norris

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. — Kathleen Norris

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot? — Kathleen Norris

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. — Kathleen Norris

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. — Kathleen Norris

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them. — Kathleen Norris

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year. — Kathleen Norris

I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos. — Kathleen Norris

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. — Kathleen Norris

It's all so beautiful ... the spring ... and books and music and fires ... Why aren't they enough? — Kathleen Norris

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter. — Kathleen Norris

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it. — Kathleen Norris

Like an exasperating but invaluable friend, the Bible keeps bringing me back to my senses, often in bracing (and comical) ways. — Kathleen Norris

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship. — Kathleen Norris

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours. — Kathleen Norris

Poets and monks ... We're both sort of peripheral to the world. — Kathleen Norris

Here we discover the paradox of the contemplative life, that the desert of solitude can be the school where we learn to love others. — Kathleen Norris