There's moments where the blood just drops out of your heart.

You actually feel inadequate because you can sense how much pain someone else is in, but you can't relate, you can't be them and you certainly can't take it all away.

Jukai

Aokigahara - suicide forest.

I really appreciate how matter of fact the geologist is. It's a strange question, too - why do you suicide in such a beautiful place?

I find it interesting too that the social circumstances I have experienced to a degree in Japan that Japanese themselves find stifling I found refreshing next to my experience of Australia. Maybe I don't understand it enough, or can't experience it to the same degree.

"I really think it is time we admitted that faith is really the permission that religious people give each other to believe things strongly when reasons fail.

...And I think that the real irony here that we need to point out relentlessly is that every religious person recognises this fact with respect to the other guys' religion."

Sam Harris