Sharon Elkouby

The light being doesn’t judge. ‘When he came across times when I had been selfish, his attitude was only that I had been learning from them, too,’ said a person in Life After Life. Judgment comes only from yourself. The light being emits an all-encompassing, unconditional love that is ‘unimaginable, indescribable’. You feel the happiest you’ve ever

I had two books with me, which I'd meant to read on the plane. One was Words for the Wind, by Theodore Roethke, and this is what I found in there:

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear,
I learn by going where I have to go.

“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”

Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

read April 2017

“Rosewater said an interesting thing to Billy one time about a book that wasn’t science fiction. He said that everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky. “But that isn’t enough any more,” said Rosewater.