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James Hillman • The Soul's Code
“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal
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Since death is only an abstract concept to them, most people are totally unprepared for the dissolution of form that awaits them.
Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans
My mother, the doctor thought, was waiting for my arrival and might not last the night. “Dying of what?” I asked him. “Nothing, everything.”
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
The rarity and preciousness of human life. The inevitability of death. The awesome and indelible power of our actions. The inescapability of suffering.
Norman Fischer • Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
Our patients’ lives and identities may be in our hands, yet death always wins.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
The only things I can see are waves of purple, ebbing and flowing through the absolute darkness. Phosphenes, I think, remembering the technical name for the colorful effect that blossoms to life when people close their eyes. They’re caused by minute electrical charges created inside the human retina, only visible when not being bombarded by visual
... See moreJeremy Robinson • Infinite (Infinite Timeline Book 1)
I have begun, when I am weary and can’t decide the answer to a bewildering question to ask my dead friends for their opinion and the answer is often immediate and clear.2 —MARIE HOWE