“The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.”
“Expose yourself," they said. "Let us see your deepest and your darkest."My deepest and my darkest? What are you, my gynecologist?”
“Actually, the gap between say Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human.”
“The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.”
“I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.”
“We’re all broken. We all have cracks. It’s not about making it through life in one piece it’s about narrowing the gap between the fissures so we don’t shatter.”Ted Basel to Jo Nehr in my next "Surrender" story”