There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for l… - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Nor could I have imagined that afterward I would spend the rest of my life explaining that death does not exist.

Even the love for and from our families and friends is based on expectations and conditions.
Inevitably, these expectations and conditions are not met, and the details of real life become the thread that creates a nightmare.

Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.