“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Your mouth opens clean as a cat’s. The window square Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try Your handful of notes; The clear vowels rise like balloons.”
― Ariel: The Restored Edition
― Ariel: The Restored Edition
“The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small—small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as even the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“We should remember that even Nature’s inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. The way loaves of bread split open on top in the oven; the ridges are just by-products of the baking, and yet pleasing, somehow: they rouse our appetite without our knowing why.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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