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The idea of epigenetic inheritance has long been embraced in many communities.
If people were rain, men would be drizzle, and women a hurricane.
“We don’t have to grieve only those we know. Sometimes we grieve for that which was lost, that which was never allowed to be.”
Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there, it’s that we ignore the ones who are.
I guess that’s what love is, and when someone is counting the time they have left in weeks instead of years, none of that other stuff seems to matter as much.”
“Samsara is also Dukkha,” Sam lamented. “Which means suffering. It’s a karma thing. Sometimes we just don’t get it right at this turn at bat. But there’s a lot to be learned along the way, especially by how we treat others. My parents always stressed that karma is transpersonal. It’s not about doing good or bad, making wise of foolish choices, for our own karmic benefit. It’s about how our choices can improve the quality of other people’s journeys. Our family’s, our children’s, our partners’, romantic and otherwise.
Happiness is free.
“Ghosts aren’t always bad. Sometimes they’re just our ancestors checking in on us.”
pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Karma is more like a suitcase. You have to be unafraid to open it up and look at what’s inside, to unpack the things you don’t need. Karma is the climate of the past, which shapes how much leeway we have in the future.”
“It’s okay to miss someone. It means you loved them. Grief is unexpressed love.”
“Strangers are the people we forgot we needed in this life,”
