“I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart, turn off my mind, turn off my body - just lie there, senseless, like a dormant tree in winter, waiting for the spring to return.” MindHeartBodyWantedLyingTurnsWaitingTreeReturnMy HeartSpringPressesWinterEmptinessButtonsDetachmentClicksTurn OffNumbnessDormant Author:Kevin Brooks
“This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow.” PeopleWellsHeartLittlesMomentsSeemsEarthLife IsMy OwnSilenceSunGrowingPlanetsHairMy HeartMoonAngelShiningRoundsDustEmptinessCosmosSpellsGood And BadPuffCoughing Author:Alexander Eliot
“Raindrops are beating, a large puddle is forming, there on the balcony. It all floats in Emptiness, in purest Transparency, with no one here to watch it. If there is an I, it is all that is arising, right now and right now and right now. My lungs are the sky; those mountains are my teeth; the clouds are my skin; the thunder is my heart beating time to the timeless; the rain itself, the tears of our collective estate, here where nothing is really happening.” IfsHeartWatchesSkyTearsMy HeartRight NowMountainHappeningsRainSkinsCloudsTeethEmptinessCollectivesEstatesTimelessThunderLungsFloatsTransparencyHeart BeatRaindropsPuddlesBalconiesHeart Beating Book:One Taste Source: One Taste
“I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.” KnowsMenFeelsHeartLongMadeEyeStrongDogMy HeartBitterEmptinessLong AgoTailsCursedDrained Author:Amy Tan