One does not need to recreate the cosmos or to fix it, but I can choose to love, despite everything. This is currency. Only God frees me to choose this because, without him, I would slide into the condition of the killers, the beast-men of
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“Every family member reacts to the suicide of a loved one in his or her own individual manner: from anger to admiration, from identification to denial. Dr. Edward Dunne likens the suicide of his brother, Tim, to a meteorite that crashed into his family, sending each member into different and separate orbits of mourning. “Suicide destroys the original fabric of the family, forcing a reintegration of the survivors,” he says. “The pace at which individual family members are ready and able to do this will vary, necessitating individual interventions.”
― No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
― No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
“Individual destiny is not produced machine-like from the “mills of the gods”. Nor are we characters in a morality play. We are works of art, each work distinct, each a phenomenon, the art laboring hand in hand with the Artist to create the story. We are inside a poem. No, we are the poem.”
― Island of the World: A Novel
― Island of the World: A Novel
“The first half of life is discovering the script, and the second half is actually writing it and owning it.”
― AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
― AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“to hide them. “A man is himself and no other”, Josip says. “He is an island in the sea of being. And each island is as no other. The islands are connected because they have come forth from the sea, and the sea flows between them. It separates them yet unites them, if they learn to swim.”
― Island of the World: A Novel
― Island of the World: A Novel
“These honors that you give to me are not for me alone. They are for those who, dying young, now sleep in the earth with their unspoken poems, waiting for the Last Day.”
― Island of the World: A Novel
― Island of the World: A Novel
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