“Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.”
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“I was in error when I saw him as fixed and stable and thought I would have him forever. He was never fixed, nor stable, but always just a passing, temporary energy-burst.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“I had spent an entire life praying for a miracle, and none had come. And now I looked at the stuffy chapel of my ancestors and saw vanity and greed, heard the call to prayer and thought of power, smelled incense and wondered at the waste of it all.”
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
“Though on the surface it seemed every person was different, this was not true.
At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end.
We must try to see one another in this way.
As suffering, limited beings --
Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end.
We must try to see one another in this way.
As suffering, limited beings --
Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness.
(So why grieve?
The worst of it, for him, is over.)
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
(So why grieve?
The worst of it, for him, is over.)
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
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