Sublime
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If de blues was whiskey, I'd stay drunk all de time.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
and she looks into my eyes as if trying to catch the image of a minnow that has darted across the pool of a limpid spring.
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
As with everything I’ve ever written, I start out paralyzed by fear of failure. The tarantula ego—starving to be shored up by praise—tries to scare me away from saying simply whatever small, true thing is standing in line for me to say.
Mary Karr • The Art of Memoir
Heart is sea, language is shore. Whatever sea includes, will hit the shore. — RUMI
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
This is true of everyone at first. It is hard to realize what you are doing when you are fishing in the unconscious. If you are inexperienced, you do not know that down there lives the Death nature. Once you find out what you are dealing with, your impulse is to throw her back. We become like the mythical fathers who throw their wild daughters out
... See moreDr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
So now I, too, have hypocrisy, and breasts (small ones), and hair growing in the appropriate places, and sharp eyes, and I have made a vow never to be fooled again.”