Randall

“If you want to be saved from your present suffering, you must be willing to change and be changed in the present. That change can be tangible—leaving an abusive relationship, going back to school, moving down the hallway in an assisted-living facility. But it can also be a change in perception. This, in fact, is the harder change. A change of perception to knowing you are enough, and have been since birth, to seeing a world suffused in love and swimming in beauty, despite loneliness, despite pain, despite illness, loss, trauma, and even atrocity—now that’s hard. That seems impossible. Yet it happens, again and again, and again.”
― Kerry Egan, On Living

“When someone tells you the story of their suffering, they are probably still suffering in some way. No one else gets to decide what that suffering means, or if it has any meaning at all. And we sure as hell don't get to tell someone that God never gives anybody more than they can handle or that God has a plan. We do not get to cut off someone's suffering at the pass by telling them it has some greater purpose.”
― Kerry Egan, On Living

“I say don't find yourself. I say never know who you are. Because that's what keeps you striving & discovering, and it forces you to remain humble in your judgments & accepting of the differences in others.”
― Kerry Egan

“I think it's because it's startling every time - every single time - that such beauty and such loss coincide in every life, in every soul, in every memory.”
― Kerry Egan, On Living