I don’t believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

– Gloria Naylor

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,

You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things

There’s a feeling I don’t know quite how to describe of extreme potential energy in one’s life, so full of life to be lived and ready to burst out at any moment

What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.” — Jorge Luis Borges

“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.”

- Brian Eno

if you have a garden and a library you have everything you need.

-cicero

The most human part of humanity is not our animal instincts nor our computer-like rationality, but our mutual social creation of meanings and values around arbitrary choices.

“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.”

― David Shields, Reality Hunger

Stubbornness can be a vice masquerading as virtue’s white knight