The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. ~Italo Calvino
Commonplace book of a teacher, poet, and counselor.
How can I express the darkness?
(via buried-denmark)
The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain times, and then I work to figure out for myself if what he is telling me is the truth or not, and sometimes I can figure out that it’s not the truth and sometimes I don’t know and never know, and sometimes just because he says it to me over and over again I am convinced it is the truth because I don’t believe he would repeat a lie so often. Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about some questions as: whether he is angry at me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves her or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling.
Spring: trees flying up to their birds.
(via johnmyersart)
I love all beginnings, despite their anxiousness and their uncertainty,
which belong to every commencement. If I have earned a pleasure or a
a reward, or if I wish that something had not happened; if I doubt the
worth of an experience and remain in my past—then I choose to begin
at this very second.
Begin what? I begin. I have already thus begun a thousand lives.
One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple
Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,
Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?
Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.
(via urfaust)
The memory throws up high and dry
A crowd of twisted things;
A twisted branch upon the beach
Eaten smooth, and polished
As if the world gave up
The secret of its skeleton,
Stiff and white.
(via urfaust)
I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.
(via tatteredcover)
All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes.
(via jntquigley)
Look, I want to love this world
as though it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get
to be alive
and know it.
(via largerloves)
To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores
(Source: moontravelers, via beverleyshiller)
