All of our emotions are our babies. 

 

Treat them tenderly, care for them. 

 

Be with them. 

 

Understanding and compassion 

 

will ultimately transform them.

 

 

- Thich Nhat Hanh-

 

 

 

May I accept other beings, exactly as they are in this moment.
May I accept this moment exactly as it is.
May I accept myself exactly as I am in this moment.

- ​Michael Kewley -

If you understand everything, 

 

you must be misinformed.

 

 - Japanese proverb -

 The only normal people 

 

are the ones 

 

you don’t know very well.  

 

- Alfred Adler -

NO CLOUD 

HIDES THE SUN

FOREVER.

Those who spend their time

 looking for the faults in others,

usually make no time

 to correct their own.

 

- Art Jonak -

What cannot be said,

will be wept.

Vladimir Nabokov, teaching his students how to read Kafka, pointed out to them that the insect into which Gregor Samsa is transformed is in fact a winged beetle, an insect that carries its wings under its armored back, and that if Gregor had only discovered them, he would have been able to escape. And then Nabokov added: ‘Many a Dick and a Jane grow up like Gregor, unaware that they too have wings and can fly.

- Vladimir Nabokov on Kafka’s Metamorphosis -

Don't become a victim of negative self-talk.

 

 Remember you are listening!

Therefore, dark past,
I’m about to do it.
I’m about to forgive you
for everything.

 

 

- Mary Oliver, A Settlement-

 

 

 

Home

 

 is the warmest word 

 

there is.

 

 

 

We want things we cannot have. We seek to reclaim a certain moment, sound, sensation. 

I want to hear my mother’s voice. I want to see my children as children. Hands small, feet swift. Everything changes. Boy grown, father dead, daughter taller than me, weeping from a bad dream. 

Please stay forever, I say to the things I know. Don’t go. Don’t grow.


- Patti Smith -