The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, and then it will expand again…..  and it will repeat this process… forever.

What you don’t know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now.  Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through in your next pass.  Every mistake that you make you will live through.  Again, and again…. forever.

So my advice to you is to get it right this time around.  Because… this time…. is all you have.”

– Prot.  In “K-PAX”

Everyone is a liar – one way or another – to one degree or another.  No one can tell the truth about themselves.  It is quite impossible.

Something must always be justified.  Always, something must be justified.  we do each other dreadful harm because we refuse to justify the foibles of others – only our own.

One place to see this fact is while driving.  Have you ever “D&*& you you M*(&^(& F^(*&^ you idiot don’t you know to LOOK before you do a lane change?”   I’m sure you haven’t ever. No never! Ever ever.  Performed a lane change not knowing there was a car in your own blind spot!

But here’s the rub:  Traffic is one thing.  But extend this principle into our broader lives, and you can see how our own limited scope, failure to see beyond ourselves, can hurt ourselves, in a mutual sense.