"He had learned that to love someone meant that one day you would have to watch them walk away from you."

Has knowing that love ends in loss ever stopped you from beginning?

– Hanya Yanagihara (A Little Life)

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"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."

What single presence in your life makes the rest of the world feel optional?

– Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)

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"Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic?"

Are you holding onto your pain because letting it go would make you feel ordinary?

– John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

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"Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition."

– Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

What moment do you wish you could return to, knowing full well you never can?

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"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."

– Rumi (The Essential Rumi)

What are you silently being pulled toward, and are you following?

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"Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him."

– Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)

When did having a clear choice between two good paths terrify you more than having no choice at all?

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"When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too."

– Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

If your death erases the entire world as you know it, what are you preserving it for?

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"I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone."

– Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex)

How much energy do you spend performing normality that doesn't come naturally to you?

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"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

– Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

What do you love as naturally as breathing that you only appreciate when threatened with its loss?

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"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

– Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

What discomfort have you been avoiding that might actually make you feel fully alive?

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"I wasn't meant for reality, but life came and found me."

– Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)

What part of reality still feels like it was never meant for someone like you?

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"I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love."

– Maya Angelou (Selected Works)

Can you name three times in your life you were loved, are loved, and gave love?

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"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person."

– John Green (Paper Towns)

Whom have you elevated beyond personhood, and what happened when they turned out to be human?

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"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."

– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

Which memory simultaneously gives you warmth and tears you open?

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"Because you are alive, everything is possible."

– Thich Nhat Hanh (Living Buddha, Living Christ)

What possibility are you ignoring simply because you have forgotten how remarkable it is to be alive?

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"We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is."

– Hermann Hesse (Narcissus and Goldmund)

Who in your life is your opposite in a way that completes rather than conflicts?

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"We travel like other people, but we return to nowhere."

– Mahmoud Darwish (We Travel Like All People)

Where do you return to when there is nowhere to return to?

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"He had always thought that the worst feeling in the world was to be lonely. He was wrong. The worst feeling was to be forgotten."

– Hanya Yanagihara (A Little Life)

Which frightens you more — being alone, or being erased from the memory of those who once knew you?

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"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."

– Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) (Dhammapada)

How gracefully do you let go of things not meant for you?

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"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."

– George Orwell (1984)

Where do you imagine meeting the people you have lost -- and what would you say?

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