July 23, 2023

4. Excerpted from p 10 “The Promise of Emptiness” Prologue: “I am the ship hand, I am Ahab, tied to both his ship and his whale. I am also the whale in my life, sometimes I breach and I can be seen, but more often than not I’m under the surface, alone, unseen, unknown to […]

“We all know that death exists, especially the older people, and also the young who observe it. The young say, ‘Wait until it comes, and we’ll deal with it’; and as the old are already near death, they have recourse to various forms of consolation. Please follow and apply this to yourselves; don’t put it