“Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.”

“Never be so focused on what you are looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”

“We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.”

“There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt tears rolling down the both of our faces. But, in that kiss, there was even more want. We both wanted to smother out that pain, to not have so many horrible things in the all too recent past, to just be normal, to do the types of things we were supposed to be dealing with besides death and disability.”

“Normally, to decide whether we are alive we do not look outside of ourselves to find out if we are nourishing and generating life. We look into ourselves to find out how strong and healthy and vital we are. But the notion of the seed that dies demands an extraordinary redirection of the sense of life. Now to know if anyone is alive, we do not look at them; look beyond them to the mode of their expenditures and the life that they nourish and preserve beyond themselves.”