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Fourth Rising | Martin Roy Hill

“Dictators don‘t achieve power by announcing their intent to enslave people, Brandt,” Sanders said. “That‘s bad P.R.”

“They‘re always the first to claim violations of their personal rights,” Russo added, “and the last to grant those same rights to anyone else.”

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Reggie Oof. 4y
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Every Grain of Sand | David P. Wichman, Heather Ebert

“The undercurrent of unresolved pain is brutal and insidious. These are the unseen scars of a scapegoated child. I wondered whether I would ever heal. My emotional state vacillated between injured and caretaker, trying to nurture my own soul.“

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Every Grain of Sand | David P. Wichman, Heather Ebert

“This beautiful experience of divine love opened my heart and mind to something more, a conscious acknowledgement that I was absolutely loved and lovable. I‘m going to be okay. And I hadn‘t been okay for so long, not just years, but across the entire trajectory of my life...

bibliobliss ...In that jailhouse church surrounded by those resounding harmonics and that ragtag group of convicts who believed they were going be okay too, relief and gratitude and tears poured out, and I let go into my first real sense of peace.“

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Every Grain of Sand | David P. Wichman, Heather Ebert

“Given how sick I looked, prison staff took me straight to the infirmary. My spirit broken and my body temperature rising, the vinyl mattress became soaked and unbearable to lie on. I rolled off the gurney onto the cement floor, feeling the cool surface against my cheek...

bibliobliss ...I felt myself surrender. Please, God, help me. All I want is a chance to live through this. Something‘s got to give. In that instant, I knew my life was going to be different, but I couldn‘t at all foresee how.“

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Every Grain of Sand | David P. Wichman, Heather Ebert

“From there, I was off and running. I camped out with an old drug-dealer friend named John, sleeping on the floor of his flea-ridden hotline hotel room in the Tenderloin. Tweaked out of my mind, I had become that guy carrying garbage bags and screaming at trees, a strung-out disaster...

bibliobliss ...My skin was dry and ashen, my teeth black and rotten. While I was staying with John, shingles broke out all over my body; the sores puffed and blistered and broke open, eventually hardening into a scab the size of two sheets of paper down the side of my body.“

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Every Grain of Sand | David P. Wichman, Heather Ebert

“My life had taken off. I wasn‘t making anywhere close to ten thousand dollars a month, but I had more equity in living than I‘d had in decades on the street. Just as Jeff Stevenson had taught me all those years earlier, I saw how I could truly manifest and create my own life...

bibliobliss ...Immersed in a raw form of gratitude, I couldn‘t help thinking, Oh my God, I survived! I‘m clean and sober. I‘m not digging into a trash can or sticking a needle into my arm. Every day, a laundry list of joys flooded my mind.“

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Every Grain of Sand | David P. Wichman, Heather Ebert

“Our relationship wasn‘t working because my relationship with myself wasn‘t working. I needed to be single. I needed to get to know me. My entire life had been an endless dependency on a person or a drug or a system. I needed to not be taken care of by someone else for once.“

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Every Grain of Sand | David P. Wichman, Heather Ebert

“I was filled with so much self-loathing that nothing mattered. I didn‘t want to live in my body or feel any feelings or be where I was. I lived in this limbo between not wanting to live and not wanting to die, simply suspended in oblivion. Even in the worst of times, I always wanted to live...

bibliobliss ...I wanted to feel alive, to be present and part of this planet, to be here, maybe not feeling feelings, but here. I didn‘t want to kill myself, or else they would win, whoever they were. The darkness would win. That was the idea: I‘ll never kill myself, and I‘ll never die. I‘ll outlive all of you motherfuckers. I‘ll show you.“

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Every Grain of Sand | David P. Wichman, Heather Ebert

“Within a week, my meth usage was completely out of control. And I didn't stop using for the next twenty years.“

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Every Grain of Sand | David P. Wichman, Heather Ebert
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Good book so far. Pictured is the author, whom I've actually contacted on social. Here's hoping Reedsy extends the launch date for this title, so I have time to read it and write a thoughtful review. I can already tell that this book deserves time and reflection, and will provide much insight into one person's #recovery journey.

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