Chris

“I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.”
― Federico García Lorca

“I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world. I was part before the sun rolled into shape and burst forth the glory of change. I was, when the earth hurled out from its fiery rim. I shall return with the earth to Father Sun, and still exist in substance when the sun has lost its fire, and disintegrated in infinity to perhaps become a part of the whirling rubble in space. Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, every moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with infinite and need no other assurance.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

“The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“I have emerged

from this shrinking heaven half-drowned & with a heart molding

at the edges & speaking of the heart, I love most what it is until it decides

it isn’t. first a weapon & then not. first a mirror, wherein you see yourself briefly

whole & next to someone else who is briefly whole & then not. I am talking about the end

of love—how the door closes one night & never re-opens.

I Tend to Think Forgiveness Looks the Way It Does in the Movies ”
― Hanif Abdurraqib