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So soon
there will be nobody
here going on
about death
and pain and change. No one here!

When he is no longer needed Christ will come again.

you
can shut both your eyes
(you can pluck out your eyes), the light
will still be there

Rilke in one of his letters said Christ
is a pointing, a finger pointing
at something, and we are like dogs
who keep barking and lunging
at the hand

The closer I get to death, the more I love the earth.

Courage is not the absence of fear.

There's nothing like today

I believe one day the distance between myself and God will disappear.

Long nights, short years. Forgiving
silence

When morning comes, and pain--

no one is a stranger, this whole world is your home.

How does one go
about dying?
Who on earth
is going to teach me--
The world
is filled with people
who have never died.