Miracle

It's an open question whether a full and un-averted look at death crushes the human psyche or liberates it. One could say that it's the small ambitions of life that shred our souls and that if we are lucky enough to glimpse the gargoyles of our final descent and make it back alive, we are truly saved. 

Every object is a miracle compared to nothingness and every moment an infinity when correctly understood to be all we'll ever get. Religion does its best to impart this through a lifetime of devotion, but one good look at death might be all you  need. 

~ Sebastian Junger, from his new memoir In My Time of Dying