[coldchai]

master detachment. to your lovers. to your family. good and bad. all of it. learn to enjoy the moment and understand that nothing is truly in your control. surrender. be at peace.

[fyp-philosophy]

“Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.”

— Lao Tzu

[abiro2005]

[petaltexturedskies]

As for lovers, they are discovering new ways to love. Listen, their windows are open. You can hear them laughing.

Mary Oliver, from “Late Spring” in Felicity: Poems

[lunamonchtuna]

to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.

[muhtesemz]

Pehle Khat Roz Likha karte thhay

Doosre Teesre tum Phone kiya karte thhay

Aur Ab Yeh ki tumhaari Khabrein

Sirf akhbaar se mil Paati hain

In the beginning,

You used to write a letter every day.

Every second or third day

You conversed on Telephone.

And now,

I know your welfare,

Only through the newspapers.

- Parveen Shakir

[sustancy]

[fahadaccount]

never regret having a good heart. all good things come back multiplied

[nixscriptum]

[shitiunderline]

“The trees you planted in childhood have grown too heavy. You cannot bring them along. Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, “Part One IV,” from Sonnets to Orpheus

[petaltexturedskies]

୭ৎ

[theblackfactory]

The flower of life

[wetheurban]

Reframe: There is so much happiness in letting go.

[pollen]

Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"

[vexheart]

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from "Of Love", Red Bird

[shisasan]

excess of feeling and imagination, the overflowing,

July 9, 1923 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]