Quotes
Packy McCormick and
Quotes
Packy McCormick and
“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself.” -Epictetus
Writer James Baldwin on hate as a defense mechanism: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
"Know your own mind just as it is" ~ Ryokan
To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible. -Thich Nhat Hanh