Mere Words

Bellerophontic Letters

"Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever..."

Kindness was compensation. Kindness was a reminder that my life had changed, was always changing, that people thought I should just accept all this and become strong or brave, more enlightened, more peaceful.

"Men were liars by nature, and would give anything to get what they wanted of you, and then they would think better of it and be off on the next boat..."

"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."

"It is true that I know many things. Yet in the battle between knowledge and passion, knowledge never wins."

"Numbing the pain for a while will only make it worse when you finally feel it."

"Sacrifice,..., you made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost."

"Here on earth, falling is less dramatic. You drift. You wander off."

Trenches

"The goal of prayer is not to change God's mind about what you want. The goal of prayer is to change your own heart, to want what He wants, to the glory of God."

"I knew," he said, "that what I wrote must give you pain, but it was necessary..."

"Many of us decided long ago who we were. And it's hard for others to tell us otherwise."

But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.