Brother Weeps was not in the habit of giving advice. He guided people to discover and live into the deep truth of their own life. But I do remember once—maybe he was especially good-humored that day—when a sincere young buttoned-up professional-looking woman asked Brother such a question and he responded:

Make sure to live each day in such a way
that if you were to fall off a hundred-foot cliff
and your life flashed before your eyes
that you don’t die of boredom from having seen it
but from the hard landing.

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