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because a relationship is a story you construct together and take up residence in, a story as sheltering as a house. You invent this story of how your destinies were made to entwine like porch vines, you adjust to a big view in this ...more
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Robert M. Pirsig
“Let’s consider a reevaluation of the situation in which we assume that the stuckness now occurring, the zero of consciousness, isn’t the worst of all possible situations, but the best possible situation you could be in. After all, it’s exactly this stuckness that Zen Buddhists go to so much trouble to induce; through koans, deep breathing, sitting still and the like. Your mind is empty, you have a “hollow-flexible” attitude of “beginner’s mind.” You’re right at the front end of the train of knowledge, at the track of reality itself. Consider, for a change, that this is a moment to be not feared but cultivated. If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then you may be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas.”
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Elizabeth Gilbert
“But the thing about divorcing someone is that you kind of stop listening to all the mean stuff they say about you after a while.)”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Rebecca Solnit
“it’s okay to realize that we do need help, that calling out for help is a very generous act because it allows others to help us and it allows us to be helped.”
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit
“it’s okay to realize that we do need help, that calling out for help is a very generous act because it allows others to help us and it allows us to be helped. Sometimes we’re calling out for help.”
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit
“when he brought her to San Francisco, “She was like a child come home. Everything about the city excited her; she had to walk all the hills, explore the edge of the ocean, see all the old houses and wander the old streets; and when she came upon something unchanged, something that was as it had been, her delight was so strong, so fiercely possessive! These things were hers. And yet she had never been here before. . . . She possessed it,”
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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