People say, 'Now I've finished Pippa, I need to read it again, slower.' You know what happens, so this Lent, let it happen again, deeper.

After a fearful arrival, the Garden of Sadness turns out to be a good place for Pilgrim. She wants to rename it the Garden of Joy

'Neither in life nor in death do we know what's round the corner.' The opening words of Pippa's Progress and so we live the day.

'When you set out on the journey to heaven,' said Will Good, 'the way finds you. Creation conspires to help you.'

'I heard u felt weighed down by things, trapped in a mechanical existence, in the dull grooves of habitual reaction,' said Will Good.

As she sets out, Pilgrim meets Consultant, a man paid well for telling people to do lots of things he never does himself.

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Pippa meets Glossy Mags whose unrealistic ideals leave her hating herself. No good friend or religion leaves us hating ourself.

'Consultant was an expert in the theory of heaven but not the experience of it. Pilgrim wanted the experience.

Pilgrim's journey is similar to Jung's 2nd half of life, 'because what was true in the morning can be a lie by the afternoon.'

Inching down a cliff face, in some trouble, Pilgrim remembers her aunt's words: 'If God gives you lemons, you make lemonade.'

Pilgrim becomes caught up in Headpsin's Hallucinatory Mental Circus and she's hardly alone in that. Leave at first opportunity

Someone said yesterday they fear picking up Pippa's Progress, that it sits by their bed unread. I can understand that.

The pilgrim soul, setting out, open to adventure, tears, laughter, discoveries of all sorts...well, what a magnificent being.

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'There are no authority figures in the world,' said Veronica. 'Just alot of people pretending it. So don't be fooled, Pilgrim.'

'A spiritual person is one who enjoys all the flowers along the way,' noted Pilgrim, 'but also grasps the nettle.'

'Sometimes we do unforgiveable things cos that's all we can do,' said Veronica.'Why don't u just leave me alone?' replied Pilgrim

'We don't know anything,' said Pilgrim.' 'We know that we don't know,' said Happy, 'and that's enough for adventurers.'

'Everyone must visit the Garden of Sadness sometime, my friend,' said Happy.