“People speak of belief when they have lost knowledge. Belief and disbelief in God are mere surrogates. The naive primitive doesn’t believe, he knows, because the inner experience rightly means as much to him as the outer. He still has no theology and hasn’t yet let himself be befuddled by boobytrap concepts. He adjusts his life -of necessity- to outer and inner facts, which he does not -as we do- feel to be discontinuous. He lives in one world, whereas we live only in one half and merely believe in the other or not at all. We have blotted it out with so-called “spiritual development”, which means that we live by self-fabricated electric light… ””
— Carl Jung
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”
— Hafiz
“Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.”
— Mandy Hale
“Please be patient with me. Sometimes when I’m quiet it’s because I need to figure myself out. It’s not because I don’t want to talk. Sometimes there are no words for my thoughts.”
— Kamla Bolanos
it is august / it is soft and it is warm / the heat clings to your bones / like a kiss / like a dream / you are beside me / and suddenly these moments last for centuries / and we are etched into the stars / sunlight filters through the window / the night is velvet / the morning is silken / and once again / august / is all about loving / when the sky is all that’s left
“I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
but not in a way most people understand.
I was busy taking deeper breaths.
I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I was busy calming a racing heart.
I was busy telling myself I am okay.
Sometimes, this is my busy -
and I will not apologize for it.”
- Brittin Oakman
- Artwork : Sivan.ka
“Fall in love with someone who’s comfortable with your silence. Find someone who doesn’t need your words to know it’s time to kiss you.”
— Clairabelle Ann
“My alone feels so good. I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”
— Warsan Shire
“I think too deeply about everything. I still don’t know if that allows me to see more of the world, or less of it.”
— Mobeen Hakeem