Joyce Carol Oates, "The Mercy"

C.G. Jung, from Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East

Text ID: Man is free to decide whether "God" shall be a “spirit" or a natural phenomenon like the craving of a morphine addict, and hence whether "God" shall act as a beneficent or a destructive force.

“LAPIN – UNE OREILLE LEVÉE” ÉDOUARD-MARCEL SANDOZ // circa 1919 [patinated bronze | 6 x 7 x 4.4 cm.]

I know you. I have felt you like a serpent crawling in my body.

yes...

to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you. by A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

“i thirst for you. don’t walk away from me. tell me everything, even if you have to hurt me a little. no one in the world will love anything you do as much as i do. tell me about the you i love, the one who’s a little shivery. let yourself go. don’t force yourself on me, just because you don’t want to worry or help me. when you strip in front of me, i finally understand why i was born. i love you.”

— Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Correspondance, January 14-15, 1950 [#131]

A young boy carries his slingshot around his neck and wears cherries like earrings in Gilgit, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Ric Ergenbright

Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Veronica Veronese [1872]

Unknown // Suzanne Scanlon

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from  “Women who Run with the Wolves,” published in 1992