“It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
- Leonard Cohen. Courtesy of Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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Mr. Antolini
in The Catcher in the Rye (1951), a novel by J. D. Salinger
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“…Pain doesn’t listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable.
- Identity by Milan Kundera (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
- Hermann Hesse (via libraryland)
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”In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”
-Margaret Atwood
The goal is to understand how to accomplish the desires from a new perspective of non attachment and begin to enjoy the journey.
