00:43:55
I'm not sure that god particularly wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to be able to live and be loved. He wants us to grow up.
We think our childish toys bring us all the happiness there is ... and our nursery is the whole wide world. But something, something must drive us out of the nursery to the world of others. And that something is suffering.
00:48:18
We read to know we're not alone.
00:48:40
You see, we're like blocks of stone out of which the sculptor carved the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much, are what make us perfect.
01:06:35
We live in the shadowlands. The sun is always shining somewhere else. Round a bend in the road. Over the brow of a hill.
01:41:35
No, I don't want to be somewhere else anymore. Not waiting for anything new to happen. Not looking around the next corner, or the next hill. Here now. That's enough.
01:43:00
The pain then is part of the happiness now.
02:00:52
Why live if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore, only the life I've lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice. As a boy, and as a man. The boy chose safety. The man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
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