Before He Wakes
Acts of which he would have thought himself incapable of a mere week ago.
While Patrick didn’t go so far as to actually call himself a practicing Buddhist, he did have great respect for their philosophies and had spent some time visiting with a Buddhist monk at the Cambodian wat in Wellford. One of the things that resonated the most with Patrick was the Buddhist belief that all life was precious. Not just human life, but all life. Buddhists tended to be vegetarians and didn’t wear leather, but it went even deeper than that. The monk he met literally wouldn’t hurt a fly, and that was literally in the literal sense of the word. Flies, cockroaches, rats, ants, snakes, even mosquitos . . . the e
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