Mel

“Why should I seek more?
I am the same as he.
His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“We who are living in the lap of luxury with our pitiful little psychological problems have a tremendous responsibility to let our clarity and our heart, our warmth, and our ability ripen, to open up and let go, because it’s so contagious”
― Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to love yourself and your world

“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. If these little creatures knew how great a change awaited them, no doubt they would regret it; but would not all such sorrow be misplaced?”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall