"I cannot imagine how we forgive ourselves for all of the things we didn’t say until it was too late."
~ Doc Luben
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First, you must let your heart
be broken open
in a way you have never
felt before,
cannot imagine.
~ Dorothy Walters
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All I have is all I need
And all I need is here now
"We live in perpetual self-confrontation between the external success and the internal value. And the tricky thing, I'd say, about these two sides of our nature is they work by different logics."
~ David Brooks
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"The choice isn’t between religion and the secular world, as it is now — the challenge is to learn from religions so we can fill the secular world with replacements for the things we long ago made up religion to provide. The challenge begins here."
~ Alain de Botton
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"We cannot receive love, however, if we are not open to the raw and tender experience of wanting it. Suppressing or denying desire shuts down our openness to receiving nourishment, and thus only intensifies our hunger."
~ John Welwood
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"Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration. And this is where I think language came from."
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You are a traveler,
you know the open, hostile smiles
of those stuck in their lives.
Make a fire.
~ Stephen Dunn
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"This simple act of acceptance – which may only last a few seconds – offers a taste of that open space of essence love, an acceptance of the warmth that is your basic nature, the heart of your own being."
~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche
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"The quite cynical response would be to say, Why we love nihilism in pop culture is that it saves us having to be burdened with it. It saves us from feeling it. We can enjoy it in our rooms. We can get off on it. And then we let it go and we go back to work." ~ Simon Critchley
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It’s okay to feel, deeply.
It’s okay to not know.
It’s okay to play
on the raw edge of life.
Why should we grieve that we’ve been sleeping?
It doesn’t matter how long we’ve been unconscious.
We’re groggy, but let the guilt go.
Feel the motions of tenderness
around you, the buoyancy.
Rumi
Read More“What both science and at least some philosophical and even religious traditions tell us is that the world is impermanent. Nothing in it stays the same. We don't stay the same. Our bodies don't stay the same. The people that we love and the things that we love don't stay the same. That's just the truth of the matter, that there's this constant impermanence, this constant flux. And some philosophers have argued over the years that we should just embrace that. We would be freer if we didn't try to hold that flux for a moment.”
Alison Gopnik
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