“Severe illness wasn’t life-altering, it was life-shattering. It felt less like an epiphany—a piercing burst of light, illuminating What Really Matters—and more like someone had just firebombed the path forward.”
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“You could not help but feel your specklike existence among the immensity of the mountain,…”
“Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself…”
“If the weight of mortality does not grow lighter, does it at least get more familiar?”
“I would have to learn to live in a different way, seeing death as an imposing itinerant…”