
In poverty as well as in other misfortunes, people suppose that friends are their only refuge. And friendship is a help to the young, in saving them from error, just as it is also to the old, with a view to the care they require and their diminished capacity for action stemming from their weakness; it is a help also to those in their prime in performing noble actions, for ‘two going together’ are better able to think and to act.
… knows this. Every breath we take has dusted Hawaiian waterfalls and the Fukushima nuclear reactor. We come most alive in the times when our sense of separateness drops away. We remember the times walking in the high mountains, making love, losing ourselves in music, witnessing the birth of a new child, or sitting at someone’s bedside at the moment of death, when the gates to mystery open.