Jackie

“This was once Mazama, I kept reminding myself. This was once a mountain that stood nearly 12,000 feet tall and then had its heart removed. This was once a wasteland of lava and pumice and ash. This was once an empty bowl that took hundreds of years to fill. But hard as I tried, I couldn’t see them in my mind’s eye. Not the mountain or the wasteland or the empty bowl. They simply were not there anymore. There was only the stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing began.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“To use our individual good or bad luck as a litmus test to determine whether or not God exists constructs an illogical dichotomy that reduces our capacity for true compassion.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“He thought of Heraclitus: a man cannot step in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man.”
― Sharon Guskin, The Forgetting Time

“our most meaningful relationships are so often those that continued beyond the very juncture at which they came the closest to ending.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar