Rob Coyner

“I believe in the ordinary day
that is here at this moment and is me

I do not see it going its way
but I never saw how it came to me

it extends beyond whatever I may
think I know and all that is real to me

it is the present that it bears away
where has it gone when it has gone from me

there is no place I know outside today
except for the unknown all around me

the only presence that appears to stay
everything that I call mine it lent me

even the way that I believe the day
for as long as it is here and is me”
― W.S. Merwin, The Shadow of Sirius

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
…'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.”
― David Hume

“We understand more than we know.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”
― Plato, The Symposium