Oana Leva

“what has become perfect, all that is ripe - wants to die. All that is unripe wants to live.All that suffers wants to live, that it may become ripe and joyous and longing - longing for what is further, highr, brighter.”
― Nietzsche

“When a cat falls out of a tree, it lets go of itself. The cat becomes completely relaxed, and lands lightly on the ground. But if a cat were about to fall out of a tree and suddenly make up its mind that it didn’t want to fall, it would become tense and rigid, and would be just a bag of broken bones upon landing. [I]t is the philosophy of the Tao that…the moment we were born we were kicked off a precipice and we are falling, and there is nothing that can stop it. So instead of living in a state of chronic tension, and clinging to all sorts of things that are actually falling with us because the whole world is impermanent, be like a cat. —Alan Watts, What Is Tao? Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? —Lao Tzu”
― Kaira Jewel Lingo, We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption

“Wintering… is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“I was learning about it along the way, often through reading, often from people and ideas marginalized by culture, erased by the collective selective memory we call history”
― Maria Popova, Brain Pickings