We cannot go where we want to go and if we leave we’ll be back. Going means nothing when there is nowhere to go. There is only here and what is here, what is there is gone and it has been gone since it has been and it has been forgotten. We have forgotten because we have perfected the illusion of comings and goings.
There are only two possible futures for anything we grab hold of: we either release or become bound to it, otherwise our hand gets too tired.
Inner criticism is motivation until it’s not. And it’s not until it is.
One man’s pleasure is another man’s pain; one man’s walk in the park is another man’s most treacherous journey; one man‘s crutch is another man’s injury. Sometimes they’re all the same man that’s changed a bit.
The moon was so bright it was blinding, it almost looked like the sun.
Much of my internal dialogue is a rewriting of the last thought; I think I have become unable to have passive thoughts without considering how I would write them down, the inside voice becomes too active, there’s a lull in input.
(As I looked at the moon and thought about the way I would describe it I realized I was no longer looking at the moon)
The limitations of language both enamor and disgust me
What is lucid and light needs the obscure and shadowy.
Heidegger
Berührung is a mathematical term that describes the point of contact or touch that marks the point of exchange
It’s German
It’s a feminine noun
Intention doesn’t always precede action but when it doesn’t it’s either non-action or accidental action. Too little intention results in passivity but too much intention prevents beautiful accidents.
We can learn a lot from a stomach bug. Being truly guided by an inner voice feels kind of like the uncontrollable urge to puke.
People talk a lot about a self-created false sense of security, but not self-created false insecurity, about feeding one’s own self-doubt to maintain the feeling of lack that can make dead things feel alive.
There are implicit contradictions that make staging a near-death-experience impossible.
Things that are dangerous to have too much of rather than too little of: faith, ambition, forgiveness, trust
Things that are dangerous to have too little of rather than too much of: faith, ambition, forgiveness, trust
Things that are better to have too much of rather than too little of: faith, ambition, forgiveness, trust
There are many great things that begin with the letter B including but not limited to Baudelaire Bataille The Beatles Bananas and Bondage but Cs still get degrees
Is this a pattern or a coincidence?
Just because things suddenly seem different doesn’t mean you’ve had some sort of epiphany. Maybe things simply became different.
I think empty souls are able to haunt us even before the bodies they live in die. We can hear their cries from within the flesh, and the wails are even more melancholic than the ones that come from the graves.
Have you ever met the vacant stare of someone whose soul you thought existed? Nothing is more frightening (especially if you’re looking at a lover or a mirror).
What wouldn’t you give to be a guest at your own funeral?
There is fruit and I have hands
Words stop making sense the more you use them
Don’t become an irony case…
(too many dying parents)
Brick and mortar make a house but you need that special something to make a home (plumbing).
They’ll say things like “blink once and you miss it” yet expect you to be able to fall asleep at night
Wrong to seal illogic with a kiss but I do it myself all the time.
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Plumbers and gardeners unite - BHK 👩🌾👩🔧