A batch of the best highlights from what Lukas's read, .
And what is there? Who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death.
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude (Translator), Amy Mandelker (Translator)
Ambiguous loss is an extraordinary stressor—a producer of uncanny anxiety and unending stress that blocks coping and understanding. It freezes the grief process and defies resolution. It understandably encourages denial of loss. It can lead to immobilization and more crises.
Loss, Trauma, and Resilience
Pauline Boss
Callicles complains that Socrates takes a slip of the tongue to be a hermetic gift because it lets the philosopher penetrate his opponent’s argument.