Frederick Buechner Quote

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world's weather.


Telling Secrets (1991)


The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves,...

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves,...

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves,...

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves,...