Devotion es un libro de no ficción de 2017 escrito por Patti Smith. El libro es considerado "el primero en la serie de Yale University Press" llamada "Why I Write", que se compartió en 2016 en la Universidad de Yale para una conferencia Windham-Campbell. Está compuesto por tres secciones.
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“Devotion may be compared to a chain with two extremities one of these is in the hand of the devotee and the other is in the hand of God. When the devotee draws the chain, God leaves Heaven and descends to the earth; when God draws the chain, the devotee enters into the kingdom of God even with his ego.”
“He took his time strapping on his customized armor and loading his weapon magazines, rifle, pistol, and assorted knives. For him, preparing for battle was a divine ritual, a blessing and sacrifice to the Holy Ones. He intended to show his devotion by expunging as many of the enemy as he could..”
“The impurity of ignorance is in none so manifest as in the devout; for they act on their ignorance, and fill themselves and others with miserable scruples and hard thoughts of God, and are as apt to call good evil as other men are to call evil good.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
