Dalia Ismail

“الكتابة ليست وسيلة لتفريغ الاحتشاد النفسي، بل هي تصنع الاحتشاد و تؤكده.
الكتابة فائقة على الحياة. أنها تجاوزٌ لها.
الكتابة ليست إشارة إلى الجرح، بل صناعة مستمرة له.”
― بثينة العيسى, كبرت ونسيت أن أنسى

“A Sanskrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means, ‘one who lives at the border.’ In ancient times, this was a literal description. It indicated a person who had left the bustling center of worldly life to go live at the edge of the forest where the spiritual masters dwelled. The antevasin was not of the villager’s anymore-not a householder with a conventional life. But neither was he yet a transcendent-not one of those sages who live deep in the unexplored woods, fully realized. The antevasin was an in-betweener. He was a border-dweller. He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“أعجبنا ذلك أم لا، من الضروري أن نعترف بأننا نعيش في عالم لا ينظر إلى الجمال كضرورة”
― بثينة العيسى, كبرت ونسيت أن أنسى

“Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations...”
― C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self