Marcus

“To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“When you are washing the dishes, washing the dishes must be the most important thing in your life. Just as when you are drinking tea, drinking tea must be the most important thing in your life. Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole world revolves—slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“After the sounds of wind and birds
have crowded away to the edge of sleep,
still in my memories of the mountain
there lingers the sound of water,
piercing to my bones.”
― Pak Chaesam, Enough to Say It's Far: Selected Poems

“There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.”
― Marguerite de Valois