Rachel Apodaca

“Perhaps such secrets, the secrets of everyone, were only expressed when the person laboriously ragged them into the light of the world, imposed them on the world, and made them a part of the world's experience. Without this effort, the secret place was merely a dungeon in which the person perished; without this effort, indeed, the entire world would be an uninhabitable darkness; and she saw, with a dreadful reluctance why this effort was so rare.”
― James Baldwin

“how hollow and futile life can be when it's founded on a false belief in continuity and permanence.”
― Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

“She was like a wild animal who didn't know whether to come to the outstretched hand or to flee and kept making startled little rushes, first in one direction and then in the other.”
― James Baldwin

“...learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.”
― Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying