Emily

“I don't know,' I replied. 'But looking at you, it's like I see inside a burning house. The house is being destroyed, just as your body is being consumed. But you and I are still here. The body will go, and you'll still be there. It seems to me, the way you and I are connected isn't really defined by this disintegrating body. You sound just like you've always sounded. I feel like I've always felt. Your body is decaying before us, but the way you and I love each other, I just believe that love transcends death.”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“When you lose your fear of death, you gain a love of life.”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“I began to live in love as a state of being. It was as if love was no longer a verb with an object. In that state, I simply became a loving being, an emitter of love. It's a two-way street: as you become a loving being, the Universe is loving you. You are at home in the universe. hOMe, hOMe on the range.”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“Of all the punctuation marks, he told me, ellipses were his favorite.”
― Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas