Lee Wallen

“In pleasure we only feel the music, in pain we also feel the lyrics.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The only place I ever felt at home was with you. There isn’t a place for me anywhere anymore… I’ve been evicted.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“To forgive oneself does not negate the need to undo mistakes. True forgiveness desires to make things right. Making things right is not equivalent to guilt. The need to undo mistakes cannot be replaced by guilt. In fact, being immobilised by guilt is an avoidance of fixing things up. It makes one powerless and gives one an excuse to remain passive and negligent. To continuously feel guilty over wrong doing is both ego-confirmatory and ineffective in correcting bad karma. Guilt is the initial spur to action. Then we act in order to correct both our thoughts and the karma, and we leave the guilt behind.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

“My never-ending pursuit of pain-avoidance
ultimately leads
to replacing one hurt with another.
Unruly pleasure
leads to bitter rage.
And these lessons I cannot learn
from beloveds who become
so cavalier.”
― Ruth Boukhari, Forlorn