Herself Defined

“People the world over turn to religion for salvation. But when religion hurts and maims, where are they to go for salvation?”
― Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

“The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth”
― Robinson Jeffers

“Haven’t you offered up some part of your Self to someone (or some thing), and taken on a “narrative” in return? Haven’t we entrusted some part of our personality to some greater System or Order? And if so, has not that System at some stage demanded of us some kind of “insanity”? Is the narrative you now possess really and truly your own? Are your dreams really your own dreams? Might not they be someone else’s visions that could sooner or later turn into nightmares?”
― Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

“There’s so much gray to every story—nothing is so black and white.”
― Lisa Ling