we are running
running and
time is clocking us
from the edge like an only
daughter.
our mothers stream before us,
cradling their breasts in their
hands.
oh pray that what we want
is worth this running
pray that what we’re running
toward
is what we want.
Lucille Clifton
There is not something or someone experiencing experience! You do not feel feelings, think thoughts, or sense sensations any more than you hear hearing, see sight, or smell smelling. “I feel fine” means that a fine feeling is present. It does not mean that there is one thing called an “I” and another separate thing called a feeling, so that when you bring them together this “I” feels the fine feeling. There are no feelings but present feelings, and whatever feeling is present is “I.” No one ever found an “I” apart from some present experience, or some experience apart from an “I”—which is only to say that the two are the same thing.
Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
One should always have one’s boots on, and be ready to leave.
Michel de Montaigne. Essays
It’s rarely the truth itself that people can’t accept.
It’s how they feel about it.
Karen Russell, The Antidote
If you have the words,
there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith
is also of little love.
Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving