“Can you let the window be open? Can you let the rain or the sunshine or the butterfly come in?”
– June Singer
Category: Quotes
“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.” – Charles Bukowski
One of my favourite passages of writing, I may have even already posted it here before, but if I have, it deserves to be posted more than once anyway:
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” – Jack Kerouac
“To be is to be related, and there is no such thing as living in isolation.” – Krishnamurti
“You are greater than you think and all is well.”
– Khalil Gibran
LILA
“There is an old Sanskrit word, Lila (Leela), which means play. Richer than our word, it means divine play, the play of creation and destruction and re-creation, the folding and unfolding of the cosmos. Lila, free and deep, is both delight and enjoyment of this moment, and the play of God. It also means love. Lila may be the simplest thing there is—spontaneous, childish, disarming. But as we grow and experience the complexities of life, it may also be the most difficult and hard won achievement imaginable, and it’s coming to fruition is a kind of homecoming to our true selves.”
– Stephen Nachmanovitch
Kierkegaard:
‘…the most common despair is to be in despair at not choosing, or willing, to be oneself; but that the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself. On the other hand to will to be that self which one truly is, is indeed the opposite of despair, and this choice is the deepest responsibility of man.’
(Excerpt from ‘On Becoming a Person’ by Carl Rogers)
Some Words Left Behind 