We could look out our windows and still see your face, still hear your voice on the wind. But where do we look for you now?
How do we say good-bye to you without saying good-bye to apiece of ourselves? Where do we look for you now?
This is your house, Reb. You are in the rafters, the floorboards, the walls, the lights. You are in every echo through every hallway. We hear you now. I hear you still. How can I – how can any of us – let you go? You are woven through us, from birth to death.
At I Am My Brother’s Keeper, there were no dues, no drives, no singles nights. Membership grew the old-fashioned way: a desperate need for God.
Have you found someone to share your heart with?” he asked. “Are you giving to your community? “Are you at peace with yourself?
He was intent on proving that the word ‘dying’ was not synonymous with ‘useless’.
Tapes, like photographs and videos, are a desperate attempt to steal something from death’s suitcase.
The old darkness has taken a seat alongside him. He is used to it by now, making room for it the way you make room for a commuter on a crowded bus.
Holding anger is a poison.
A freed soldier is often furious. The days and nights he lost, the torture and humiliation he suffered-it all demands a fierce revenge.
This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
There is a reason God limits our days.” “Why?” “To make each one precious.
When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
Accept who you are; and revel in it.
Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.
Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.
Holding on to things only breaks your heart.