Surround yourself with souls who make vulnerability feel less like a transgression. For those who lend an attentive ear without demanding eloquence, whose presence offers a semblance of sanctuary. And find yourself a familiar corner somewhere.
A dull blast of grim sunlight burned my eyes physical sensation of seeing. There's a hot yellow languished in the black green of the trees. The torpor .....
I refuse to become accustomed to the diminutive boundaries of an existence I could have outgrown. There are too many disciplines to master, places to discover, ambitions to materialize, and versions of myself yet to encounter.
Touching the Earth,
I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all these things, I have found them to be reason enough and I wish to live.
Intellectuals have always been partial to grandiose ideas about themselves, it whether of a heroic or a masochistic kind, but surely no one has ever had a more grandiose idea about the destiny of modern intellectuals than the brilliant economist Joseph Schumpeter. (1962)
Everything worth to pursuing exists somewhere beyond your apprehension. Have the courage to take the leap, withstand the uncertainty, and earn the life you've always envisioned.
Perhaps one of life's subtler arts is learning to coexist with the doors that open and those that close without allowing either to define your worth. Some arrive with invitations, others with silence, and a few leave you standing before possibilities you never knew existed.
Let yourself be moved by the curiosity, but it never become a stranger to your own boundaries. There's beauty in being accessible to life while remaining selective about what gets to stay.
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