“Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves. Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.” KindPersonsMadeRealityTodayPastMovingSkyWindStandingStonesFinding YourselfDestinationTiedOur PastCastlesYour PastTrue NaturePostcards Author:Guy Finley
“Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!” IfsWantHumansStillsRealShowsLightPastHuman BeingsCitiesStreetsWallStandingCirclesEmptinessDusk Book:Old Wine: A Novel Source: Old Wine: A Novel
“I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.” WorldTryingI CanPastArtistDifficultGrowing UpGrowingThis WorldStandingWho I Am Author:Matt Bomer
“When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.” FeelsWritingLooksPastFacesMovingDiesFatherMemoriesBoysImagineSonBecomingStandingSightMovedNostalgiaBoyhood Book:The Invention of Solitude Source: The Invention of Solitude