“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
“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
“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.”
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“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
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