Carrying a day is like carrying a mountain, those endless small words men use to guard their helplessness. Put your day down. Come to the bank in the snow wearing grace and pain, the silence at the end of sentences. Breathe the snow and the sad odor of human dust. All the roads are inside… Continue reading Terrance Keena
The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. ― Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect.” (1968)
“When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking… Continue reading Hermann Hesse
It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness. ― Shannon L. Alder
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. ― Shannon L. Alder
The most introspective of hearts tends to be the most sentimental. We cling to the smallest moments from our past because we fear that emotion will never come our way again. ― Shannon L. Alder
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. — Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book… Continue reading Sogyal Rinpoche
If I love you, what business is it of yours? ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. Bk. IV, Ch. 9. (Johann Friedrich Unger [Berlin] 1795–1796)
Skin is a line of demarcation, a periphery, the fence, the form, the shape, the first clue to identity …and, in purely physical terms, the formal precondition for being human. It is a thin veil of matter separating the outside from the inside…skin is separation, individuality, the basis for corporeal privacy… — Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse.… Continue reading Andrea Dworkin
