life

1 while you were sleeping the saints were weeping for the things you pronounced deal before they were even born.

2 have patience with everything that remains unresolved in your heart. try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and books written in a foreign language. do not look now for the answers. they cannot be given to you because you cannot live them. it is a question of experiencing everything. at present, you need to live the question. perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.

3 life is like a penis. when it gets hard, fuck it.

4 but i always have to remind myself, no matter how worked up i get, that i am not right and they are not wrong. that they are not stupid for not understanding. we are just on different sides of the glass. we are all on different paths on this here earth and on different points on those paths. not until we reach the end will we be able to see who was on the outside and who was on the inside--and that's assuming we ever make it to the end. i think what is important is your personal relationship with god, the world, and all its inhabitants. you are not going to save anyone else, but you cain gain wisdom from them. every person has a lesson to teach you, if you just listen long enough to hear it.

5 so many have yet to feel the slap of life; eluding its awesome force, preferring to walk the dark road of apathy instead, mindless of the events unfolding in front of them. yet none will sleep long, for light always finds cracks in the comfortable walls of ignorance.

6 do you think you deserve credit for merely loving those who love you? even the godless do that. and if you think you only do good to those who do good to you--is that so wonderful? even the evil ones do that. and if you lend money only to those whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? even the most wicked will lend to their own for full return. (the gospel of luke)

7 if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imgained, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. (thoreau)

8 as we speak, so time flees away. seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. (horace)

9 the great essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

10 they say every soul needs to make the pieces fit.