Logan

“If the purpose of a relationship is for people to be healed, and healing can only occur when our wounds are revealed, then the ego confronts us with a terrible Catch-22. If I don’t show myself, there can be no growth. Without growth, there will ultimately be boredom, which is death for the relationship. But if I do reveal myself honestly, then I might appear unattractive and my partner will leave.

The ego’s narcissism has us waiting for the perfect person to appear. The Holy Spirit knows that the search for perfection in another is just a smokescreen that hides our need to develop the perfect within ourselves. And if there is a perfect person out there—which there isn’t—would they date you?”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Relfections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles

“When my father was sixty-five and I was twenty-seven, I said to him, thinking him a very old man, that it must have been fun for him to be an architect. He replied unexpectedly that it had been no fun at all, since architecture had everything to do with accounting and nothing to do with art.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage

“Q: What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A: Imagining that something somewhere wants us to like it here.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage

“What he’d done is he’d wired his house as the left speaker and his entire barn as the right speaker, and they played Harvest. And at the end of it Elliot Mazer comes down to the shore of the lake and goes, ‘Neil, how is it?’ Neil turns around and shouts, ‘More barn!”
― Jimmy McDonough, Shakey: Neil Young's Biography