I Am Pilgrim

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But there was nothing, just a gale of fear blowing down the lonely corridors of his mind.

Life was duty. Like any soldier going into battle, I thought of the conflict that lay ahead. To be honest, I didn’t hope for success or glory. I just hoped that I would acquit myself with honor and courage.

I pulled to the curb and parked a good fifty yards away. I pointed it out to Ben, made him name ten significant features, and then repeat them. It was a standard way of imprinting a memory and most studies showed that, even under extreme stress, a subject would remember six of them.

Evidence was the name we gave to what we had, but what about the things we hadn’t found? Sometimes, the things that were missing were of far greater importance.

information didn’t exist until it had been safely transmitted.

“He was a Buddhist monk and he told me something I’ve never forgotten. He said that if you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.”

writer called Robert Louis Stevenson once said that ‘sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.’ “He was right—so I say, pull up a chair and pick up your fork; the time is coming when we’ll all be chowing down.”

Then we had a piece of luck, or at least that’s what it looked like. We should have known better, of course.