She understood why it angered her when people spoke of life as One life. She became certain of myriad lives within herself. Her sense of time altered. She felt acutely and with grief, the shortness of life’s physical span. Death was terrifyingly near, and the journey towards it, vertiginous; but only when she considered the lives around her, ( Read more... )

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“There are no persons, and no space within to create a self. What is left, after the continuity of thought is blown away, is one disjointed and independent series of interactions. What happens in the environment around me, happens in here. There is no division. When the armor you are wearing around you is stripped away, you find an extraordinary ( Read more... )

If you could ask a priest--or a rabbi, a minister, a pastor, a Buddhist monk--anything, what would you ask? For counsel, I mean. Something specific.

This makes me happy.

=D

Everything is beginning to gracefully exhale in
to peaceful equilibrium.

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By the way, Leonardo (kenoster) -- I finally got your reference that I am "polymorphously perverse."

Yay for Annie Hall =)