It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses.
So we were created with a piece of divinity inside us, but with this thing called free will, and I think God watches us every day, lovingly, praying we will make the right choices.
Once, on the balcony of a seaside villa, she said she wished she’d met him earlier in life, and he said, “We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.
America had become a Persian bazaar of self-help. But there still seemed to be no clear answers.
Most religions warn against war, yet more wars have been fought over religion than perhaps anything else.
His hair fell out, his face went gaunt as a skeleton.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. MOHANDAS GANDHI.
Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth?” Cleo asked. “People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It’s a shame.” She looked to the sky, now a deep shade of purple. “We fear loneliness, Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. It is merely a shadow that falls over us. And just as shadows die when light changes, that sad feeling can depart once we see the truth.
Y sin esperanza, el tiempo es un castigo.
Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.
Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help.
Then, in Annie’s new grasp, Cleo’s womanly frame shrank down. Her coat tightened and became her fur. Her legs pulled in. Her ears and snout elongated. She was revealed as the puppy she used to be on earth, and she panted as Annie held her up and said, “There you are. Cleo. Cleee-o!
All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence. And now, someplace beyond death, Eddie slumped against a stainless steel wall and dropped into a snowbank, stung again by the denial of a man whose love, almost inexplicably, he still coveted, a man ignoring him, even in heaven. His father. The damage done.
Dying,” Morris suddenly said, “is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else.
It was so important to me, I thought it should be important to him. I thought that was love.
If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
Of course, there were a million self-help books on these subjects, and plenty of cable TV shows, and $9 per-hour consultation sessions. America had become a Persian bazaar of self-help.
God and the decision he renders is correct. God doesn’t punish anyone out of the blue. God knows what He is doing.
Remember the memories.
I believe in being fully present.