Mia Tryst

“If you hate anyone, let them live." But do not let them live through you. (from the Mikado Empire's book)”
― William Elliot Griffis

“What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Sunrise

What is the name
of the deep breath I would take
over and over
for all of us? Call it

whatever you want, it is
happiness, it is another one
of the ways to enter
fire.”
― Mary Oliver

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism