The Bodega at the End of the Internet

Yes. Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.

Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering

For one gains by losing

And loses by gaining.

Father Renteria picked up the coins, one by one, and walked to the altar.

"These are Yours," he said. "He can afford to buy salvation. Only you know whether this is the price. As for me, Lord, I throw myself at your feet to ask for the justice or injustice that any of us may ask ...For my part, I hope you damn him to hell."

And he closed the chapel.

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If you have given up your heart for the Tower, Roland, you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

at the end I hardly knew who I was or what I was doing.

We mistakenly assume that the present is merely a continuation of the past, a predictable outcome of previous actions.

But what if we’re looking in the wrong direction? What if the true nature of reality lies not in the quantized past, but in the ever-present, unquantifiable now?

He went outside and looked at the sky. It was raining stars. He was sorry, because he would rather have seen a tranquil sky. He heard roosters crowing. He felt the mantle of night covering the earth. The earth, "this vale of tears."