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348 pages, Hardcover
First published March 19, 2019
Occasional magic refers to those moments of beauty, wonder, and clarity, often stumbled upon, where we suddenly see a piece of truth about our life. As Moth directors we spend our days helping people shape their stories. We help people identify the most important moments of their lives (as we sometimes put it, “the moments when you became you”) so the audience will understand why they mattered so much.
You hear all the time that children are the future. But I refuse to settle for being the future when I can be the right now.
You have to have amazing karma, they say, to have a lama actually want to do tonglen with you, which is giving and taking. When they put their head to yours, what they are doing is saying, Give me all your pain, and I'm gonna give you all my joy.
I think that Gaggy held the strength of his mind in tension with his faith – and not a creative tension. He held it off to one side of the passions and beliefs that were so important to who he was in the world. I don't believe he ever felt that his mind – and its questions – were invited into his faith.