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FULL SOBBING because bestie and i say to each other how epic life is

“‘is it true what religion teaches, …rise from the dead, that we shall live again and see one another again, and Ilyushechka?’ ‘Certainly, we shall be resurrected, …, we shall see one another again and we shall tell one another happily, joyfully, everything that has happened,’ replied .., half laughing and half overcome with emotion.

Stop don’t say that!!!!!

“My hour of reckoning has come; I feel the hand of God upon me. A fitting end to a profligate life!”

I see why Zach said this book changed his life

“I appeal to all fathers: “Fathers, provoke not your children!” Before we make any demands upon our children, let us first fulfil Christ’s will ourselves. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies to our children; nor are they our children, but rather our enemies, and it is we ourselves who have made enemies of them!”

Le me crying

“It is merely that they are unable to conceal their—sometimes very coarse—passions—and it is this which causes consternation, it is this which draws attention, and no one sees the man within.”

Bro Dostoevsky does it again, talks directly to me and about me…

“such souls very often yearn for what is tender, beautiful, and just, yearn, without being aware of it themselves, for all that is in contradiction to their own natures, their recklessness, their cruelty. Seemingly passionate and cruel, they are capable of loving to distraction with an essentially spiritual, exalted love.”

Balling good vibes

“‘I want you always to remember that you kissed my hand, but I refused to kiss yours.’ There was a sudden glint in her eyes. She stared into Katerina Ivanovna’s eyes with a terrible intensity.”

So grushenka is crazy…

“‘Do you really want to marry her?’ ‘If she’ll let me, I’ll marry her at once, and if she doesn’t, I’ll stay with her anyway; I’ll be her odd-job man. Alyosha, do you… do you…’, […]this is delirium, sheer delirium, because this is a tragedy!”

At meditation we learn about how delusion is one of the three bad states, anger, greed, delusion. And I sure suffer it

‘“The ladder’s the same for all of us. I’m on the bottom rung and you’re a long way up, somewhere near the thirteenth. As I see it, there’s absolutely no difference between us. Once one steps on to the first rung, one is bound to go right to the top.’”

I guess that means we have to descend and leave the ladder if we want to not become absolutely debauched

“Alyosha interrupted suddenly. ‘But that’s not because of what you’ve been saying or what you’ve done. It’s because I’m just the same as you.’”

Oh wow so we’re all the same?