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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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crying
cycle
darkness
doom
doomed
god
god-s-creation
hannibal
hell
horror
humanity
insanity
mental-illness
murder
never-ending
prison
psychopath
punishment
serial-killer
serial-killers
sleep
the-silence-of-the-lambs
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"My funeral," the Blue Man said. "Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should? "It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. "You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole. "It is why we are drawn to babies . . ." He turned to the mourners. "And to funerals."
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birth
connected
cycle
death
funeral
karma
life
love
marriage
spirit
we-are-one
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Mitch Albom |
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The Sanskrit texts make it clear that a cataclysm on this scale, though a relatively rare event, is expected to wash away of the former world and that the slate will be wiped clean again for the new age of the earth to begin. In order to ensure that the can be repromulgated for future mankind after each the gods have therefore designed an institution to preserve them -- the institution of the Seven Sages, a brotherhood of adepts possessed of unerring memories and supernatural powers, practitioners of yoga, performers of the ancient rituals and sacrifices, ascetics, spiritual visionaries, vigilant in the battle against evil, great teachers, knowledgeable beyond all imagining, who reincarnate from age to age as the guides of civilization and the guardians of cosmic justice.
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civilization
cycle
institution
sanskrit
seven-sages
wisdom
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