“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”Tagged: Ending, humanity, Questions, Life Questioning, Understanding Life
“Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart
“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart
“'Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You'll never get me. That's the whole point.'”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Love, Understanding The Opposite Sex, Understanding Love, Understanding Life
“I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love.”Tagged: Instant, Death, Quickness, Quickness Of Death, Explaining Death
“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go…”Tagged: Instant, Death, Quickness, Quickness Of Death, Explaining Death