Halfskin Boxed Quotes

“Create desire. After all, desire needed no explanation. The heart wants what it wants, most people would say. But what makes the heart want in the first place? No one ever asked that question.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“The truth is not what you expect, Marcus. It is often quite inconvenient.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“we have to discover the truth for ourselves. The world doesn’t even ask the question if there is a greater truth to know,”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“The truth is not what you expect,”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“The Lord doesn’t give you what you desire. He gives you what you need.” Her silence acknowledged him. “What does God want?” he asked. “Our faith.” “God wants to be discovered; He wants to know Himself through you,”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“Pain is a mighty teacher.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“Create desire. After all, desire needed no explanation. The heart wants what it wants, most people would say.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“This is all there is, right here and now.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“To look with doubt upon one’s existence was to dance with psychosis.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“The truth is not what you expect.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“a koan, a question without an answer, which was bullshit. A question ceases to be a question when it has no answer.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“Life is suffering.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“But punishment without atonement is merely torture. Something should be learned from the suffering or else the lesson is wasted. The opportunity lost.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“Authority fears when it no longer has control.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“Is that all we are, memories?” “No,” he says. “We’re more than that.” “What, then?”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“Does the body make us human?”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“Reality is not relative.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“Stupidity can be mistaken for courage. Weakness, as well.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“The Lord created depression to test our resolve, to forge strength and faith. It was not meant to be cured with a pill.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“if you’re not your body, who are you?”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“The koan. The unanswerable question. The body can be killed but is the mind the product of the brain?”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“You can lose everything at any moment.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“Politics isn’t about truth. It’s making people believe the story.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“If the reporters all dropped dead simultaneously, he wouldn’t show sorrow.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed

“just a man helping humanity—infantile in their desires and bottomless in their greed—save themselves from themselves.”
― Tony Bertauski, Halfskin Boxed