It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much, if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?...I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing; but the eye that blinks, that is something.
I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, where on my knees I prayed for LIGHT, I prayed for l*i*g*h*t, and praying crawled like a blind slug into the web where threads of wind stuck against my mind and I died of pity for Man, for myself, on a cross without nails, watching in fear as the pig belches in his sty, farts, blinks and eats.
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