Robin Thurston

“If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes. "Then change tasks. And watch out for interruptions once you're really concentrating, because it will take you twenty minutes to recover.”
― Winifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“How the miracle of our meeting
Shone there and sang,
I didn't want to return
From there to anywhere.
Happiness instead of duty
Was bitter delight to me.
Not obliged to speak to anyone,
I spoke for a long while.
Let passions stifle lovers,
Demanding answers,
We, my dear, are only souls
At the limits of the world.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton