Maia

“Maktub’ in Arabic means ‘it is written.’ Write a narrative in which the speaker starts to understand that events, as they happen in his/her life, can be seen not as surprises but as an uncovering- the systematic revelation of fate.”
― Chris Kraus, Aliens & Anorexia

“Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors. It’s this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.”
― Robert Persig

“When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when ‘the sea flows in our veins… and the stars are our jewels’, when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“The biological, with the notion of inevitability it implies, becomes more than an object of spiritual life. It becomes its heart. The mysterious urgings of the blood..lose the character of problems to be solved by a sovereignly free self. Because the self is made of just these elements. Our essences no longer lie in freedom but in a kind of chaining.”
― Emanuel Levinas