Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
Michael O'BrienLove is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.
Michael O'BrienSolitude is the natural dwelling place of truthโฆIt is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.
Michael O'Brien