Ashley

“It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni, The Sutra Of The Forty-Two Sections

“If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't. ”
― Michael Pollan

“Take pains. Be perfect.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“I would recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf.

I would recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times.

And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles