RP

I heard an amazing thing yesterday. The Irish poet David Whyte was quoting somebody else when he said: the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. It’s wholeheartedness.

Sometimes when you do things that lie on the periphery of your will, you stay there, pile up the angst, exhaustion, the despair.

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Many people have the ability, but they talk themselves out of trying.

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book,” Oscar Wilde wrote in the preface to his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, “books are well written or badly written, that is all.”

for i am a drifter,

an aimless wanderer, a rudderless boat,

a sculler who lost his oars

like a driftwood, wait for the river to take me places,

never aware whether am washed ashore or still floating,

like an oyster in a desert, wait for that odd rain drop