“I’m a wisher, whispering “This life—it’s no longer mine.”
Source: Salt & Flame: A collection for the ones who endured the burn—and chose to stay.
“But this hurdle -- the ocean between what's asked of me and what I can answer.”
Source: Redwood Court
“I'd been hiding from myself...but I've found her now.”
“The concierge, I realized, had been standing beside me.
Do not be sad, he said. You have begun your own journey,
not into the world, like your friend’s, but into yourself and your memories.
As they fall away, perhaps you will attain
that enviable emptiness into which
all things flow, like the empty cup in the Daodejing—
Everything is change, he said, and everything is connected.
Also everything returns, but what returns is not
what went away—”
Source: Winter Recipes from the Collective
“Time is not a river we flow through — it is a mirror the gods hold up to remind us who we truly are.”
― from "The Book of Inspirations and Magic”
Source: Olympus Poet: Rebellion: An Epic Fantasy of Magic, Destiny, and Hidden Worlds
“Time is not a river we flow through — it is a mirror the gods hold up to remind us who we truly are”
Source: Olympus Poet: Rebellion: An Epic Fantasy of Magic, Destiny, and Hidden Worlds
“I'm afraid of losing myself. Not to you specifically, but to the idea of being part of a couple. I've watched other women disappear into relationships, become smaller versions of themselves in service of harmony or compatibility.”
Source: THE CAGE OF WHISPERS : THE CAGE THAT HOLDS US AND THE WINGS WE DARE TO GROW
“Transformation is not about becoming someone new, but about removing the barriers to becoming who we have always been beneath our protective adaptations.”
Source: THE CAGE OF WHISPERS : THE CAGE THAT HOLDS US AND THE WINGS WE DARE TO GROW
“This isn’t right. This isn’t who I am supposed to be.
How do you know? it whispers back. If you would allow yourself to think clearly for one single moment, you would know. You would know everything you have been trying not to be.”
Source: Bear, Otter, and the Kid
“When we listen to people, we should not wait for what we want to hear. We should not surf on the sound of words without capturing their meaning, either. Listening must be a path to self-discovery. (“"Labyrinth of the mind"”)”