I am thinking—talking—in images. I don’t know how to write them down. Every feeling is physical. Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980
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Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person? Clarice Lispector, from The Hour of the Star (via boulevards)

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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night. Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home,
some summer and some winter,
some roses blooming out like children in a play.
My hope is your story will be about changing,
about getting something beautiful born inside of you
about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child,
about moving yourself around water,
around mountains, around friends,
about learning to love others more than we love ourselves,
about learning oneness as a way of understanding God.
We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn’t it?

It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

I want to repeat one word for you:
Leave.

Roll the word around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful word, isn’t it?
So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be.
And you will not be alone.
You have never been alone.
Don’t worry.
Everything will still be here when you get back.
It is you who will have changed.

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You pick up a pebble on the beach – look at it – beautiful. Don’t try and get a sermon out of it – sermons and stones and god and everything be down – just enjoy it, don’t feel that you got to salve your conscience by saying that this is for the advancement of your aesthetic understanding. Enjoy the pebble. If you do that you become healthy, you become able to be a loving, helpful human being. But if you can’t do that, if you can only do things because they are somehow, you are going to get something out of it, you are a vulture.

Alan Watts, Man and Nature

Audio lecture recorded at Southern Methodist University, 1965

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