“But a river only moves in one direction, no matter how much we wish it weren't so.”
― Under the Whispering Door
― Under the Whispering Door
“Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.
And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be.
The Good Place”
―
And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be.
The Good Place”
―
“He couldn't believe it was only Wednesday. And it was made worse when he realized it was actually Tuesday.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“I may have lost my mind," he told her. "Isn't it wonderful?”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“We get trapped in our own little bubbles, and even though the world is a wide and mysterious place, our bubbles keep us safe from that. To our detriment.” She sighed. “But it’s so easy because there’s something soothing about routine. Day in and day out, it’s always the same. When we’re shaken from that, when that bubble bursts, it can be hard to understand all that we’ve missed.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
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