• be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like words that are now written in a very foreign tongue. do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. and the point is: to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
jan 18 2022 ∞
jan 16 2026 +

what resembles the grave but isn’t (anne boyer)

  • Always falling into a hole, then saying “ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying “ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes falling into a hole within a hole, or many holes within holes, getting out of them one after the other, then falling again, saying “this is not your grave, get out of the hole”; sometimes being pushed, saying “you can not push me into this hole, it is not my grave,” and getting out defiantly, then falling into a hole again without any pushing; sometimes falling into a set of holes whose structures are predictable, ideological, and long dug, often falling into this set of structural and impersonal holes; so...
apr 18 2024 ∞
jan 16 2026 +
  • you only have to believe for the length of the ritual
jan 16 2026 ∞
jan 16 2026 +
jun 6 2024 ∞
jan 16 2026 +
  • new order's on the turntable, we're dancing, 'cause what else do you do when you don't talk?
  • when you're finished struggling, are you free tonight?
  • you may not find all that you're after. in the end, I hope it doesn't matter
  • but you only know the one I’ve been. I’ve shed a thousand skins since then
  • I did this to me, and I will deal with it accordingly
  • we've never met yet share regret, never ending, never mending what we will have broken when we first collide
  • always the wrong one, never the right words. bruise, glow, take it slow
  • did you save me from drowning, only to leave me on the shore?
  • god loves everybody. don't remind me
  • if you are the desert, I'll be the sea. if you ever hunger, hunger for me
jun 22 2022 ∞
jan 16 2026 +