Aren't you going to try to talk me out of this?" Maurice asked. "Ask if I'm really up for it?""No. Maybe this is the last thing you do. Maybe you make a complete recovery. Does it matter? I mean, in the long run?""No.

No drugs here, no manipulation of neurotransmitters that leaves our worldly problems unattended. And no talking cures because explicit insight is not needed. All that is required is courage: the courage to encounter discomfort and stay with it long enough to be changed by it, strengthened.

If integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is watching, and there is never a private moment, integrity becomes impossible. What are we left with?

Yeah. Politics, Pete. We’re heading for a human moment. I have to think about what is best for America. My country, my people, my sisters and brothers. Party politics, maybe they don’t belong in the churchyard. Maybe we could just be humans in mourning black.