Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.

But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'.