sometimes you can’t stay on your own mainland.
some story of exile, unique each time: a home
you feel apart from rather than of…
— Renia White from poem Off the Shore of Oneself as in…
- We Loved With A Love That Was More Than LoveWe loved with a love that was more than love. — Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
- Instead Of Focusing On What If, Ground Yourself In What Isyou cannot build a deep connection with someone who is disconnected from themselves. — Yung Pueblo from Clarity & Connection it is easy to get lost in the infinite space of hypotheticals instead of focusing too much on what if ground yourself in what is — Yung Pueblo from The Way Forward
- If You Can Fall In Love Again And Again, You’ve Got It Half LickedIf you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked. — Henry Miller
- Because Anger Too Is WeaknessBecause anger too is weakness, as much as breaking down and giving up the struggle. Both are deserters: the man who breaks and runs, and the one who lets himself be alienated from his fellow humans. — Marcus Aurelius from Meditations 11.9 (Hays)
- We Do Not Choose Each Other RandomlyWe do not choose each other randomly. We meet only those who already exist in our subconscious. — Sigmund Freud