From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life. (from David Parkin's Diary, October 11, 1933)
...he spoke volumes, showing us that there are things not only worth dying for, but, more importantly, worth living for. For life's greatest philosophy is...lived in each breath and act of human compassion. For love has always demanded sacrifice, and no greater love is there than that for which our lives are traded.
And in this great cause of spiritual evolution, we are all called to be martyrs, to die (figuratively and literally) each of us in the quest of a higher realm and loftier ideals, that we may know God.
And what if there is nothing else? What if all life ends in the silent void of death? Then is it all in vain? I think not. For love, for the sake of love, will always be enough. And if our lives are but a single flash in the dark hollow of eternity, then, if but for the briefest of moments, we shine ~ then how brilliantly our light has burned. And as the starlight knows no boundary of space or time, so, too, our illumination will shine forth throughout all eternity, for darkness has no power to quell such light. And this is a lesson we must all learn and take to heart ~ that all light is eternal and all love is light.
(from The Letter by Richard Paul Evans, pp334-335)
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