Source: Buddha's Little Instruction Book
Source: The Bridge Across Forever (1984), Ch. 48
Context: The things we own, the places we live, the events of our lives: empty settings. How easy to chase after settings, and forget diamonds! The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?
Bill asked.
'Two ways,' Mike said. 'Gradually and then suddenly.'
Book 2, Ch. 13
Mike's response is often misquoted as "It occurs first very slowly, then all at once."
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
“O love, how did you get here?
--Nick and the Candlestick”
Source: Plath: Poems
Variant: I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
Source: The Sun Also Rises
