samurai-spirit reblogged
“The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.”
— Wallace Stevens
Source: sad-house-of-mortality
“The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.”
— Wallace Stevens
“And there I found myself more truly and more strange.”
-Wallace Stevens
Maria Popova (How Kepler Invented Science Fiction)
Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”
“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.” --Black Elk, Oglala Lakota
“The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.”
— Bob Proctor
The Cat Lady
From Wroniec
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."
- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity
'Sirin and Alkonost - The Birds of Joy and Sorrow' by Viktor Vasnetsov, (1848 - 1926)