Rita Tincani

“Caminhar é um perigo e respirar é uma façanha nas grandes cidades do mundo ao avesso. Quem não é prisioneiro da necessidade é prisioneiro do medo: uns não dormem por causa da ânsia de ter o que não têm, outros não dormem por causa do pânico de perder o que têm.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World

“It is rare, this not being in a rush: for we are both already where we want to be.”
― Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You

“You are a complete mess, friend, unable to be mended. The time for solutions has passed. Yet stay close. Breathe. This is not the end. Come out of all your futures; no time for futures now. Look: you are an embraceable mess. A mess that is holy to its very core. You could never be what they wanted you to be. You were always too alive, too inquisitive, born with a heart broken open to life. They tried to close it, but it would never close. You wouldn’t fit in. You couldn’t conform. You could never squeeze yourself into their ideal of “perfection.” The perfect thoughts and feelings, the “right” way to be, the dance they told you to dance—your heart was always too big. Let everything flood in now. Give up. Fall apart. Break down. Let the old dreams of yourself die a beautiful death. Let all the lost fragments find safety in your loving arms. And in your falling, find yourself. And in your breaking, breathe. And all the creatures in all the forgotten Kingdoms are bowing to you now. Their savior. Their love.”
― Jeff Foster, The Way of Rest: Finding the Courage to Hold Everything in Love

“AN INVITATION I don’t want to hear what you believe I’m not at all interested in your certainty I couldn’t care less about your unexcelled perfection Share with me your doubts Open up your tender heart Let me in to your struggles I’ll meet you in that place Where your spiritual conclusions Are starting to crack open That’s where the creativity lies That’s where the newness shines That’s where we can truly meet: Beyond the image Your imperfections Are so perfect In this light I don’t want you to be perfect I want you to be real”
― Jeff Foster, Falling in Love with Where You Are: A Year of Prose and Poetry on Radically Opening Up to the Pain and Joy of Life