meet the self more deeply

How then can you know more deeply who you are?

[flowerytale]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman, featured in The Letters Of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

[Text ID: I know I’ll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia―and a great deal of love.]

[free-my-mindd]

[feral-ballad]

Susan Abulhawa, from Against the Loveless World: A Novel

[Text ID: “I knew that, despite everything, I was loved. I was loved hard. At once and forever against the loveless world.”]

[innerpathwork]

[thoughtkick]

“It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.”

— Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

[perfeqt]

“It doesn’t matter what your parents did or didn’t do. Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself.”

— Dr. Phil

[surqrised]

“We’re so distracted by how things end, we usually forget how beautiful the beginning was.”

— Lamiya Waheed

[stay-close]

“Right then, I wanted to go back in time and relive every moment with him. One more secret smile, one more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn’t know I was searching for.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence

[89words]

“It is a different kind of grief that I came to experience, for generally we grieve the dead, those taken from us by sickness, accidents, age, but what do you do when you know you will never talk to this person again, never know about the path their life will take, not know if they are well or not because they chose to tell you goodbye. How do you deal with the unspeakable pain in your heart of knowing they CHOSE this, this emptiness, this silence, this void that drowns your heart in anguish, that breaks your bones with pain? It is a different kind of grief, a knife so glacial and sharp it cuts down to the very core, a wound that can last a lifetime.”

— e.v.e.

[leonardospoetry]

Still here, but not for long.

[quotemadness]

“When you love someone, it’s never over. You move on because you have to, but you take them with you in your heart.”

— Elizabeth Chandler

[metamorphesque]

Anne Carson, Igor (Krapar) Shcherbakov

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

“I’m waiting for you, I’m waiting for the evening calm, I’m waiting for our time, the oblique light, this pause between day and night. Peace will come, surely. But I can imagine no other peace than that of our two bodies bound together, of our gaze given over to each other - I have no other homeland but you.”

— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, July 17, 1949 [#71]

[unconditionedconsciousness]

“We can hardly bear to look. The shadow may carry the best of the life we have not lived. Go into the basement, the attic, the refuse bin. Find gold there. Find an animal that has not been fed or watered. It is you! This neglected, exiled animal, hungry for attention, is a part of your self”.

~ Marion Woodman, as quoted by Stephen Cope in “The Great Work of your life”

[sun-death]

“Roots, in fact, represent the perfect counterpart to the visible parts of a plant. While the visible parts are nobly elevated, the ignoble and sticky roots wallow in the ground, loving rottenness just as leaves love light.”

— Georges Bataille, “The Language of Flowers” in Visions of Excess (Trans. Allan Stoekl)

[thoughtkick]

“But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater than my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.”

— Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy

[quotefeeling]

“I didn’t want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain.”

— Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You