Letters
Our bright and shining lives, our explosions of joy, good work, and love, are always silhouetted by the shadow of death. There are times when sorrow quickens and sharpens, towering and unavoidable, and times it recedes. But it remains the white noise of all of human experience.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
We come out of the night into the day. All creativity awakens at this primal threshold where light and darkness test and bless each other.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Facing you, soaring up from the depths of the valley, is the mighty, glacier-tipped peak, its smooth snowfields and hard-edged rock-faces touched at this moment with soft rose-colour by the last rays of the departing sun, all marvellously sharp against the clear, pale, transparent blue of the sky.According to our usual way of looking at it, everyth... See more
Maria Popova • What Makes You You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
In the world of fake beauty, it is alway summer: sunny, bright, and without shadows—a land of ones and zeros where everyone is sexy and in the flush of life, never tired, broken, or irritated.
Andrew Sweeny • Beauty
I can’t remember the dress she wore or what she had bought; I can’t remember what we did for the rest of that afternoon; I can’t re-create the exact timbre of her voice or the precise shapes of her features, the lines at the corners of her mouth or the name of her perfume. I only remember the way sunlight through the kitchen window glinted from her... See more
🌻 statement of purpose
In the book Darkness Sticks to Everything the poet Tom Hennen vividly describes this tendency: Like people or dogs, each day is unique and has its own personality quirks which can easily be seen if you look closely. But there are so few days as compared to people, not to mention dogs, that it would be surprising if a day were not a hundred times mo
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