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Probably when I didn’t sleep for a week on drugs in 2009. I’d had a lot of meth and my heart felt like it was giving out. I remember climbing over balconies really high up, and I thought I was going to die, until I eventually fell asleep in someone’s garden.
Having a gun held to my head at a May Day rally during the revolution in Grenada. I was mistaken for a CIA agent.
When I was young, I was pretty reckless – my 20s were quite hedonistic. I don’t know whether I’ve been close to death, but I may have been without realising.
I got stabbed in the neck with a light tube during a wrestling “death match” two years ago. It was scary. I thought I was dying: your life does flash before your eyes.
As a man who tried to respect everyone, treating them with a smile and with due regard, despite the limitations of being human.
I fear the arrogance we are all at risk of, the pride that pushes us to put “I” in place of “God”. More prosaically, I fear physical pain because it risks stripping us of our dignity.
When each of my three children was born.
Earthly life is merely the infancy of our soul. What comes after physical death is, I imagine, like returning home.
The many nuns and priests who often work in the shadows, dedicating their lives to the service of others.
Lack of humility, the absence of goodness.
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