when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt—this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

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Author Stephen Levine asks the question, "If you had an hour to live and could make only one phone call - who would you call, what would you say, and why are you waiting?" What a powerful message!

: But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf