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“Every person exists in their own shallow bowl, and they can’t see over the rim,” he explained. “But they think that their world is the world—the truth. When in reality, no two bowls are identical, and all people are stuck trapped in their own.”
“When I read, the biggest moment pops up like a hologram in the sky,” he said. “My mind is actually inside of the book, my body is just there, looking at it, and then my brain has to return to my body.”
When you believe you know everything, you can unearth nothing
“Drinking to cope with sadness creates future sadness.”
The protagonist of East of Eden, who believes he is evil but desperately wants to be good. He prays to God: Make me good.
As philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti observed, “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
When a person becomes discontent with his or her world, three options surface: attempt to transform the problematic aspect of the status quo; or accept it; or leave it.
In grief, we find a new view—a fresh perspective, which organically generates fresh expansion: personal revolution. Because in the wake of devastation, growth becomes the only survival option. In this way, loss is the shocking catalyst of transformation.
