Now I realized that life supplies us with everything we need for the journey. Everything I had acquired either actively or passively, everything I had learned either voluntarily or by osmosis, was coming back to me as the real riches of my life, even though I had lost everything.
Ingrid BetancourtTags: learning
The book in my hands became my trusted companion. What was written there had so much power that it forced me to stop avoiding myself, to make my own choices as well. And through some sort of vital intuition, I understood that I had a long way to go, that it would bring about a profound transformation within me, even though I could not determine it's essence, or its scope. In that book there was a voice, and behind that voice threw was an intelligence that sought to establish contact with me. It was not merely the company of written words that distiller my boredom. It was a living voice, speaking. To me.
Ingrid BetancourtTags: bible
I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.
Ingrid BetancourtTags: suffering
He wasn't alive because he feared death. He was alive because he loved life.
Ingrid BetancourtTags: life
I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.
Ingrid BetancourtTags: laughter
He had to be okay. We had no choice.
Ingrid BetancourtHe who could hear my heart knew that I was crying out for help.
Ingrid BetancourtI often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me the most horrible thing of all is knowing that he will forget me."
I lacked the presence of mind to tell her that it was impossible; she was simply unforgettable.
Tags: unforgettable
But the Indians gesture touched me. It was nothing, but it was everthing. It took so little to mane a difference.
Ingrid BetancourtTags: small-gestures
If you believe what you say, words become reality.
Ingrid BetancourtTags: words
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