The Paradox Hotel Quotes

“There was once a student who went to his meditation teacher and said, ‘My practice is horrible. I feel distracted. My legs ache. I’m constantly falling asleep.’ And the teacher said, ‘It’ll pass.’ ” I put down the mug. “I’m not one for parables.” She holds up a finger. “Not a parable, but we’ll get to that. So the next week the student went back to the teacher and said, ‘My meditation is wonderful! I’m so peaceful! So alive!’ And do you know what the master said?” “Good for you?” She shakes her head. “It’ll pass.”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“How do you know that?” I ask. He doesn’t answer. And it’s the same as the other idiots. If it’s true, it runs counter to what he wants, so how could it be true?”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“Cameo leans forward. “Loss is an injury. Like any injury it triggers a pain response. And that pain can be overwhelming. But injuries are supposed to activate a healing response, too. That’s why loss hurts less over time, and one day it’s just a scar. The evidence of it never goes away, but the pain does. Unless it gets infected. And then it doesn’t heal.”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“The reason humans process pain by inflicting it on others is because it’s a really shitty and childish way of asking for help.” I drop my head. “They want to be seen, but at the same time, they’re terrified of what it is people are going to see.”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“tilt my head”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“I know that you took the loneliness you felt as a child and turned it into a way to protect yourself,”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“Why would you be doing it otherwise?” Kolten sits back heavily in the chair. “Because the planet is dying.” Well, yeah. We’d long since accepted that we couldn’t turn back the thermostat. We broke off the knob by not taking appropriate action decades ago, when it would have counted. And now populations are shifting away from the equator and toward the poles. Florida is under three feet of water and New Orleans is a modern-day Atlantis”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“A few people have said they’ve seen a woman who resembles her roaming the hallways at night. Which any other day I would call bullshit, but I see my dead girlfriend in the bathroom, so who am I to talk?”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“Kintsugi.”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

“kōan”
― Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel