“I'm trying to keep you safe."
Safe as a porcelain bowl wrapped in cotton linen and boxed up. It would be a lie to say she didn't want to feel safe, or that Nolan's worry didn't leave her feeling warm and even a bit precious. But it also left her feeling trapped, like an ornamental bird kept in a cage, its wings clipped.”
Source: The Wondrous and the Wicked
“...I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.”
Source: As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
“But karma is not in fact a material accumulation, and does not depend on externals; rather its power to condition us depends on the obstacles that impede our knowledge. If we compare our karma and the ignorance that creates it to a dark room, knowledge of the primordial state would be like a lamp, which, when lit in the room, at once causes the darkness to disappear, enlightening everything. In the same way, if one has the presence of the primordial state, one can overcome all hindrances in an instant.”
Source: Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
“I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.”
Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred
“Not all beaches are fun and sunscreen.”
Source: To Hear The Ocean Sigh
“-ty var människas handstil förändras oavbrutet, en liten smula vart år, kanske omärkligt för henne själv, men lika oundvikligt och säkert som ansiktet, hållningen, rörelserna, själen.”
“One recalls the literary writer who, after grasping a story of a Mars voyage as a metaphor for isolation and the precariousness of relationships, realized that at a deeper, more subtle level it might even be a story about an actual trip to Mars!”
“One of the things that happens a lot is you get to see how many times things happen, literal things happen and how they are completely metaphors for where you are. It’s like a mirror is being held up just about an inch to your face.”
“...[P]hilosophical theories are structured by conceptual metaphors that constrain which inferences can be drawn within that philosophical theory. The (typically unconscious) conceptual metaphors that are constitutive of a philosophical theory have the causal effect of constraining how you can reason within that philosophical framework.”
Source: Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
“Oftentimes, the most beautiful moments in life are found through pain and sorrow… though it takes a while to acknowledge that without such troubles, such beauty would never exist…”
Source: Children of Dysphoria: Book One Fall of Haven