"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's "own," or "real" life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life –– the life God is sending one day by day."
–– C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British writer, scholar, and lay theologian
via: Commonplace Book, 2024, 2025, p. 45-6.
"[I]nterruptions are occasions for reorientation, for producing necessary and new ways of living. We are beginning to lean into the breaks because we must, because in this requisite shift we can sense profound potential to become a more promising form of our collective selves."
–– Julietta Singh, Canadian scholar, academic and writer
Source: Julietta Singh. The Breaks: An Essay. Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Books, 2021, p. 39.
