Just Beyond the Light Quotes

“I can only use the tools at my disposal to try to help others to the best of my ability, then hope for the best.”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“If you want to get better at something, do it while surrounded by people who are already doing it at a much, much higher level than you. Swallow your ego, shut your mouth, then pay attention and learn from getting crushed by these people again and again.”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“When someone’s life is coming to an end and they spend time with you, don’t take a single second of it for granted. They are giving you a piece of the only thing they have left.”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“To be unable to connect with your own past through the act of memory must feel like you were losing a connection to the building blocks of your very identity. If we are the sum of our experiences, what do we become when those experiences vanish from our mind? Do we ourselves eventually disappear?”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“But apathy is a refuge of the intellectual coward and outrage without action is self righteous masturbation.”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“My racing monkey mind screamed,"Figure it out, figure it out!" because I am uncomfortable in sad and painful situations and I want to change the circumstances so that the problems will go away.”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“So if someone in my life is having a problem, my instinct is to immediately try to help them figure out how to fix that problem.”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“If something is worth believing in, a political position, a religion, a scientific theory, surely it should withstand a little rigorous examining from a rational, educated observer applying critical thought, yes? If not, that belief should be discarded.”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“Stories have power if we use them well.”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“The older I get, the more I try to structure my life around activities that I believe bring a deeper sense of meaning and purpose to what’s left of my existence.”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“When I think about dying (which I am absolutely in no hurry to do), there are many, many unpleasant ways of meeting my end that I definitely do not wish to experience. And I do get panicky from time to time when I begin to dwell on the fact that I may not get to accomplish certain things I want to do during my time on earth or visit places I’ve dreamed of going or say all the things I want to say through music, writing, and photography—”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head