Alexandra

“You see how I try
To reach with words
What matters most
And how I fail.”
― Czesław Miłosz

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“In parallel with their ceaseless consumption of time, people would ceaselessly reproduce time that they had mentally adjusted.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Aomame said, “It’s the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we’re choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everything’s decided in advance and we pretend we’re making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84