Nshira Yamoah > Recent Status Updates

“Could communities that had still not come to terms with their own extremism ever be ready to acknowledge what they had done to their own dissidents?” Powerful and relevant.

True love can never be separated

“Has a Samana or a Brahmin ever feared that someone could come and strike him and rob him of his knowledge, of his piety, of his power for depth of thought? No, because they belong to himself, and he can only give of them what he wishes, and if he wishes.”

When you finally find yourself, it can feel isolating.

“The hole is loneliness.”

“Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognitions for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle.”

Powerful analogy about the fireman

‘Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and it’s truth.’