“Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.” PeopleRealReasonMomentsJobsJoyDifficultChanceLossMysteryWake UpIllnessDivorceRadicalDifficult TimesWake Up CallJob Loss Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all.” PeopleSometimesDifficultDifferencesAliveSickIllnessOxford Book:Crampton Hodnet Source: Crampton Hodnet
“Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to make sense of things about which it is very difficult to make any sense - illness, death, despair, suicides, cruelty, the various troubles love can provoke, our inability to really know one another when we our inner selves are walled off by our bodies.” KnowsSelfBodyTurnsDifficultTroubleDespairSuicideIllnessVariousCrueltyMake SenseProvokingFormalInabilityInner Self Author:Kyle Minor
“The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.” SoulBodyDifficultTypeTerribleIllnessMalady Author:Krishnananda Saraswati