Book: The art of hearing heartbeat

To recover means to overcome, to leave behind and move on. Do you think we leave our dead behind? I think we take them with us. They accompany us, staying close, although in a different form. We need to accept their death and to accept their new look.

Is it so important to see the world? In every town and village, in every house and shack you will find a whole range of human emotions: love and hatred, fear and jealousy, envy and joy. They do not need to look far. Just look around.

U BA took a swig of cold tea.
- I often wondered: what was the source of her radiant beauty? After all, not the size of the nose, not the skin tone and not the form of the lips and eyes make a person beautiful or ugly. Then what? Maybe you, as a woman, will you answer me?
I shook my head.
- Then I'll tell you. I found the answer: love. She transforms us. If you've seen at least one person who loves and is loved truly and ugly? Do not puzzle over the answer. Such people simply no.

- What could be more precious than the view? - rhetorically asked before the surgery, Dr. McCrea, and answered himself: Nothing. Seeing is believing.

Even with watchful eyes, we see only what we already know. Other people are perceived not for what they are, and what we want to see them. Cover a real human drawn picture. And love called only those manifestations that meet our about her views. We strive to set the rules and demand to be loved in accordance with them. In short, we recognize love only outfit that made her. All other reject. They fill us with doubts and suspicions. We misunderstand someone's sincerity, in the most simple words looking for hidden meaning. No wonder we start to blame the other person. Saying he does not love us. And he loves, just in a different way, but we do not notice and do not try to see.

Love has many outfits. Most often inconspicuous. The main thing - to know her in whatever form she may have appeared, as it often happens Oh as difficult.

The soul of the people are not so changeable as the fashion in clothes or cars.

Death, like birth, is part of the great cycle, from which it is impossible to get out. To fight against the laws of nature is silly. It is better to take them as a given, rather than to dread.

Any man is capable of any stupidity. We invent a kind of portrait of our friends and acquaintances, and then stubbornly cling to him, not allowing even the thought that in some situations, people may act contrary to our ideas about them.

He remembered the old man's words about fear: "There is only one force that exceeds it. Love." The words soothed. But how to find love? If you look for it deliberately, you'll never find. So said May.

He was patient and knew that the one who is able to wait.

Time is the best healer, but not every emotional wound, it can heal. Time can only lessen the pain, making it portable.

But detachment was a dangerous side. Su Kyi saw those who became a prisoner of his own sufferings, to build from them a fortress. Some carried out in such citadels of life.

... these losses only confirmed the confidence su Kyi that the fate of a crappy character. That is the reality with which we must reckon, if you love life.