heidi elizabeth

“meaningless people, this defaced countryside? She felt like a beetle toiling in the dust. She was filled with repulsion.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“You caught only glimpses of Ross, even if you spent a long evening with him.”
― James Thurber, The Years with Ross

“Haltingly at first, in fits and starts—a pinched pot here, an arrowhead there, a bead, a hammerstone, an ax—you worked your way through the material world, through clay, stone, reed, hide, fire, metal, atoms, and genes, and little by little you became better makers. Cranked by the power of your big prefrontal cortices, the engines of your imagination gathered steam until, in tumultuous leaps of what you came to call progress, the Made proliferated, relegating the Unmade to the status of mere resource, a lowly serf class to be colonized, exploited, and fashioned into something else, some thing that was more to your liking. Within this social hierarchy of matter,”
― Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

“If we hold beliefs skillfully, we will not get entangled in them, but will see them as the mental constructs they are. When we claim our right to question everything, including our beliefs, we can unhook from our dependence on what is familiar and let in the heartfelt, open, fresh quality of faith.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience