"What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?"

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Source : Terry Brooks (2012). “Terry Brooks Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: The Sword of Shannara, Magic Kingdom for Sale: Sold!, Running with the Demon, Armageddon's Children”, p.426, Del Rey

Terry Brooks

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“Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I've spent away from my family and loved ones, I'm starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There's a darkness inside of me that I'm only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it's starting to scare me.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.
“The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.”
“... Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.”
“Commitment is never an act of moderation!”
“All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.”

Source : Jeff Greenwald (2014). “Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal”, p.13, Travelers' Tales
“Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.”
“Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding.”
“Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.”

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