Amara

“I couldn’t have found God in the seminary, he thought, as he looked at the sunrise.”
― Paulo Coelho

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods

“What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide but existential authenticity each person must find on her own. Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“beneath the fragile and very human veneer of the organized churches of the world, there lies a truth so real and so pristine that all of man’s concocted philosophical posings tumble into ruin beside it.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed