[weltenwellen]

Anis Mojgani, The Pocketknife Bible

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926

[weltenwellen]

Margaret Atwood, from “Europe on $5 a Day”, The Door

[weltenwellen]

Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl

[weltenwellen]

Warsan Shire, from “Home”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

[scribblesbyavi]

Bohat ajeeb hai yeh bandishein mohabbat ki, Na usne qayd mein rakha, na hum faraar huwe.

Ahmad Faraz

(These limits of love are very weird, neither was I kept hostage nor did I run away.)

———————

Agar tumhe kabhi lage

Ki yahan se behtar koi jagah hai

To tum ja sakti ho

Ye duniya ghum sakti ho

Theher sakti ho wahan

jahan sab kuch mukammal ho

Agar tumhe kabhi lage

Ki yahan pyaar thora kam hai

To tum ja sakti ho

Apno ko dhoondne

Waqt bita sakti ho unke saath

jahan pyaar ki koi kami na ho

Lekin agar pata lage ki nahi

Ghar to humesha yehi tha

Pyaar to bas yehi tha

To tum laut ke v aa sakti ho

Yahan phirse pyaar dhoond sakti ho

Yahan phirse apna ghar bana sakti ho

Avis

[zerogate]

Have we got into a habit of thinking about the human mind in a certain way — as our ancestors thought of the earth as the centre of the universe? I speak of ‘my mind’ as I speak of ‘my back garden.’ But in what senses is my back garden really ‘mine?’ It is full of worms and insects who do not ask my permission to live there. It will continue to exist after I am dead. If individuality is an illusion, and the mind is actually a kind of ocean, why should it not contain alien creatures?

–  Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites

[hoursofreading]

Sasha Chapin

[chloeinletters]

What I want.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Chdw3BGIn2B/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

[vlindervin7]

feeling very normal about this

[htvpgenny]

I never told you this, but sometimes I just sit there and imagine all the little scenarios of us in my head. Basic things like watching movies, cuddling, doing late night food runs, have deep conversations, and taking random trips. I just miss you and want to be with you.

[soracities]

Krista Tippett, “Krista Tippett Wants You to See All the Hope That’s Being Hidden”, interviewed by David Marchese for The New York Times [transcript in ALT]

[virginiewoolf]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[agloomyclock]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTRpD0RP-wc/?utm_medium=share_sheet

[owlmylove]

maybe if you take a hot shower. cook something. eat a little soup. feel a little sunshine. make something with your hands—it doesn’t have to be big. maybe if you stretch your body and draw a silly little picture and get some rest, the world will feel like something your hands can still hold

[fairycosmos]

i can’t believe me “trying my best” is just me showering regularly and eating normally. mental illness is so humbling 

[sophie5318]

its soo embarrassing when ppl know im upset about something. its ruining my image