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When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you..

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Alex here. (...) Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times we spent together. I hope that you will not be too depressed by our ...more

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From elementary school through high school, my siblings and I were hectored to excel in every class, to win medals in science fairs, to be chosen prin...more

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The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

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I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to apprec...more

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I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink (…) That was a very diffe...more

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Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner co...more

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But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.