Tara Muse

“We’re prone to totally deny something that is abused, because it’s easier than handling it.

I’ve noticed that truth is very rarely found in the extremes, in the black and white - you’ll usually find it right in the middle, in the gray. It’s just much harder to find that way.

We’re lazy; however, and we’ll take the ten step program or the list of rules before we do the dirty, difficult work of prayer, meditation and study that comes with living in the tension. It’s always easier to default to an extreme than it is to find the buried, messy truth that is found in living in the already and the not yet - in the tension.”
― Cole Ryan, Dating: I Think We've Missed The Point

“Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [...] The buried thought that he might have found comfort elsewhere was almost a comfort to her.”
― Carey Wallace

“Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.”
― Edward Vilga, Downward Dog

“I am basically an eternal existence
momentarily and perhaps needlessly
terrified by one half of itself..”
― Alan W. Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are