Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.
I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.
It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.
Most of them. . . most of us never figure it out. Bad dream, they think, or good one. Funny rash, never really goes away, but Doc says it's fine, nothing to worry about. Why dwell on it? But some people, they just can't let it go. . . Some people drink themselves out of school trying to find it again, trolling through bars where the shadows are so greasy they leave trails on the walls, just to find a way in, a way through. Some people forget too that you're supposed to stop sleeping, you're supposed to have a life in the sun.
It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness?
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