Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
— Henry David Thoreau
- Stop Being Who You Were And Change Into Who You AreThings pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. That is why it is so important (however painful it may be!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation… Read more: Stop Being Who You Were And Change Into Who You Are
- Sick Time, Only SickThis is the correct Zen sickness: sick time, only sick. No choice, no checking, not dependent, only sick. Then sick is not sick. This is high-class practice and a high-class education. — Zen Master Seung Sahn in Only Don’t Know
- It’s Time, She’ll SayIt’s Time, she’ll say, False prophet, that seeks flesh and gnaws the bone. — Ekphrasis: Her Expression by Yiannis Doukas, translated by A. E. Stallings
- I Am Too Alone In The World, And Yet Not Alone EnoughOnly someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being. — Rainer Maria Rilke I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that… Read more: I Am Too Alone In The World, And Yet Not Alone Enough
- When You Rise, Kiss The Tombstone Of Your PastWhen you rise, kiss the tombstone of your past and step barefoot into the garden of the future, the garden of infinitely forking paths — Maria Popova from poem How to Change Your Life