The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Sometimes it doesn’t look like the right road because it was just a road to the next road.”

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“Often in life, we draw conclusions and reflexively take action based on what we see; which in the majority of situations is achingly insignificant or just plain wrong.”

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“Some things must be pursued, or they may in fact pursue us.”

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“Sometimes in life we need to sit with things for a minute, maybe on the fringe of things, not only to savor the wealth of the moment, but take a moment to figure out how to respectfully engage it.”

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“It is in the grand contradictions of the deepest soul that great moments of life are afoot.”

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“The call of life never calls us by name, for the call of life is a call to the deep soul. This place of the deep soul can never be confined by the limits of a single name that we might place upon it.”

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“If we have nothing to live for, we have to create something to live for.”

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“What we forget is that the past is not a place to live. Rather, it is the place that gives us what we need to live more robustly in a present that will become an even more magical past if we let it be so.”

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“Maybe," David pondered, "That’s why we don’t know our futures. Maybe if we knew what was coming we’d mess with our lives so much that the very thing that life is calling us to do is the very thing we’d screw up.”

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“Sometimes life abruptly opens up in ways so vast that it engulfs all of our constructs and theories and beliefs in the swiftness of that single moment. At times such as these, life does nothing less than demand a brutally exacting reconstruction of everything that we’ve expended the raw essence of our lives constructing.”

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“Life is something like innumerable layers, leaving us wrongly assuming that the first or even the second layer is the essence of the thing.”

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“Sometimes it seems that we choose to see the ‘parts’ of our lives as the ‘whole’ of our lives. Parts are far less frightening, for if we were sufficiently daring to piece them together with all the other assorted parts of our life, the ‘whole’ of them might become bigger than the ‘whole’ of us.”

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