Insane line alert: Come Back

From Claire and Mia Fontaine's joint memoir, Come Back:

My relationship with God has evolved... I no longer rail or beg or sass back.  I was standing on a bluff over the ocean the other day and suddenly laughed out loud as I realized what an illusion that was, what an impossibility.  That would assume a relationship between "me" and an "Other," a separation.  There is no otherness; to be separate from God is to be separate from myself, from life itself.  What I've been looking for, I'm looking with.

This line isn't that representative of the book itself,  a chronicle of the hellacious pit that Claire and Mia need to crawl out of after the aftermath of childhood molestation wreaks havoc on Mia's teenage years (don't worry -- if the subject makes you squeamish, the Fontaines are quite diligent about describing the true consequences rather than the graphic details).  I finished this book while driving up to New York on Friday, have started two others, but this passage keeps popping back into my head.

The idea that God, a relationship with the universe, happiness, the IT that we all seem to look for from time to time is actually buried somewhere deep within, just waiting to be discovered: how poetic.  How yogic.  How pagan.  How... Christian, even. 

How sadly beautiful.

(Amazon link to the P.S. version, which contains bonus excerpts of letters written during Mia's behavior modification program)

Comments

[Lara]

I love that quote. We are divine, we just need to find it within ourselves and believe it. I love you :)