Small Miracles

by Olivia Atwater

Inspiring good deeds in others gains one half the value of the action so inspired. In this respect, particularly contagious good deeds can be compared to pyramid schemes.

I think most children benefit from a bit of healthy mistrust in the system. It’s not always out to help them, after all. Isn’t it best they learn to spot the difference early on?”

the dead don’t need anything from you—not love, not forgiveness. Those are things you offer because you need them.

Buddhism insists that the world cannot be perfectly defined, and that it cannot truly end or begin because it is inherently an illusion. Moreover, someone might have pointed out that the number one hobby of Buddhist masters everywhere is playing pranks upon those who ask them very serious questions.

Like most millennials, Gadriel finds the idea of actually talking to someone on the phone to be utterly repulsive. In Gadriel’s case, of course, ‘millennial’ refers to a different turn of a different millennium—but the point still stands.