Rachel Apodaca

“...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

“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

“The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived--nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died--through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain. The great question that faced him this morning was whether of not he had ever, really, been present at his life. For if he had ever been present, then he was present still, and his world would open up before him.”
― James Baldwin