Very sweet running into you. I HAVE to lend you the Natalie Goldberg! I'll leave it at L Jk's for you tomorrow... but that one I've particularly got to have back because the Gwen Teekle she mentions was my high school great friend!
Here's the EW quote:
..."Furthermore, I thought David [Foster Wallace], at 46, was at a safe age, when things are most likely to be okay or okay enough: the mad search for sex and success that consumes one’s twenties, and then leaves a hangover into your thirties, is done with; the sense of failure, the feeling that it’s all been a waste, that hits after 50 hasn’t come yet. Middle age, which might be a crisis, can also be a calm." ..."So here is the miserable truth that those of us who are given to depression are forced to face when David Foster Wallace commits suicide: It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it." Elizabeth Wurtzel 7/31/1967
BUT then and so
here's my latest Buddha quote mantra distillation:
"The smallest nutshell I can squeeze the entire teachings of Buddha into:
Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional."
FB Buddhist Boot Camp 7/23/2013
AND Thich is coming !
Tks for being born, Lou,
(or whatever you're choosing to be called in the spectacular moment)
;-D
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