I heard a psychologist say that Americans would organize their memories around that terrible day: before and after.#237•
fifty-one days after
And you're gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn't prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart."#241•
The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering#235•
When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.#210•
one hundred thirty-six days after
If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.#229•