Search for the truth

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth.
Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

Keep looking, don’t settle

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Beauty and Brains

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

Quietude

靜以修身，儉以養德
天地之鑒，萬物之鏡

Responsibility of intellectuals in lifting the veil of ideology

Younger generations today have the world at their fingertips.
It’s a very skewed version of the world.
What you have to do is try to lift the veils of propaganda and see if you can think it through for yourselves.

The Circle

Why was there so much animosity in the world? And then it occurred to her, in a brief and blasphemous flash: she didn't want to know how they felt. The flash opened up into something larger, an even more blasphemous notion that her brain contained too much. That the volume of information, of data, of judgments, of measurements, was too much, and there were too many people, and too many desires of too many people, and too many opinions of too many people, and too much pain from too many people, and having all of it constantly collated, collected, added and aggregated, and presented to her as if that all made it tidier and more manageable—it was too much.

Love people, use things

Minimalism is not about having less. It's about making room for more of what matters.

Think visually

Daydreaming subverts the world.

Attention

把注意力收回到自己身上，力量也就回來了

Tell me everything

Each time we don’t say what we want to say, we’re dying.

No one can compete

Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.

Shining

光より速い
光を放って
輝き That’s my soul
Dancing in the real life

Only consciousness is raising

言葉より
体だけ
信じてる
知識より
意識だけ
高めてる

Sure as the tides
Nature my guide

It has always been enough to be part of the natural sequence of things. 

I don’t have it in me

I will not offer myself up.
I won’t.
I don’t have it in me. 

Go first

I be the representative I want to see.
Go first, take a good run-up and leap.

I wonder

They say if you dream a thing more than once, it’s sure to come true. And I have seen it so many times.

“She needs to be seen.”

I am willing to be seen
I am willing to speak up
I am willing to keep going
I am willing to listen to what others have to say
I am willing to go forward even when I feel alone
I am willing to go to bed at night at peace with myself
I am willing to be my biggest bestest most powerful self

Life is of possibilities

If you seek security, unknowingly you seek death.
The only truly secure place is your grave. Life is of possibilities.

I am there

Wait for me somewhere between reality and all we’ve ever dreamed.

Bunny in Neverland

One day, all the love you’ve given away will find its way back to you, and it will finally stay. 

I am free

You only are free when you realise you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all.
The price is high. The reward is great. 

Togetherness

There’s healing in every touch, but something inexpressibly powerful happens when we hold another’s hand. No matter the stage a person is in, at a time when words cannot heal, togetherness can.

This friendship isn’t just about wonderful adventures and ridiculous conversations, it’s about carrying each other through the most difficult moments in life.

He has a friend, truer than all, who’ll be his strength in every way he needs her to be. This dark moment simply required reassurance, and there’s no better way to promise that everything will be okay than the joining of hands to offer warmth and comfort.

Today and tomorrow

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

She is one of us. Most decidedly. She is us more than we are us. She is, I think, who we really are. Or were.

糸巻きを解く心得で世を渡る

糸巻きを解こうとして、間違って糸口を見失うと、
もつれもつれて、遂には解きほぐす方法がなくなるものです。

世の中も糸巻きと同じように、複雑でもつれ易いものです。
お互いの立場々々をよく理解し合って、自分の行くべき道を
間違えぬよう気をつけ、難しい問題は、よく研究して、
解決の糸口を見出しましょう。

A little more primitive

I think every once in a while someone comes along who is a little more primitive than the rest of us, a little closer to our beginnings, a little more in touch with the stuff we’re made of.

Winning

People aren’t happy because they win. They win ’cause they’re happy.

Make there here, optimum creative experience

Thought itself is a reverberation and an energy. It is summoning. It’s always flowing through you.
If you have some in your energy beyond the physical body, and if that mobility becomes a conscious process, you can sit in one place and make your energies go somewhere else.

I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast

“How old are you?” said the queen.

“I’m seven and a half exactly”

“You needn't say “exactly” the queen remarked : “I can believe it without that. Now I’ll give you something to believe. I am just one hundred and one, five months and a day”

“I can’t believe that!” said Alice.

“Can’t you?” the Queen said in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.”

Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”

“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Do you think we will like each other?

I think we will all love each other.
Out of this wide, wide universe, this huge universe.
You found me. And we found each other. That’s pretty rare.

I like that most of all, being rain

You have to find your own way. Sometimes I try to erase myself. I imagine a big pink soft soap eraser, and it's going back and forth, back and forth, and it starts down at my toes, back and forth, back and forth, and there they go-poof!-my toes are gone. And then my feet. And then my ankles. But that's the easy part. The hard part is erasing my senses-my eyes, my ears, my nose, my tongue. And last to go is my brain. My thoughts, memories, all the voices inside my head. That's the hardest, erasing my thoughts. And then, if I've done a good job, I'm erased. I'm gone. I'm nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl.

And I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I'm not outside my world anymore, and I'm not really inside it either. The thing is, there's no difference anymore between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.

We were just waiting for it to rain

Mudfrogs spend most of their time sleeping. They sleep at the bottom of dry ponds in the desert, buried in mud. For months. They do this when there’s no food or water. Then one day the rain comes, and just like that, they are awake. We were just waiting for it to rain.

Real thing takes time

I don’t know why I do a lot of things lately. I bet you find that, too, right? And it’s because we don’t think. We just do. We don’t take a step back and process. Everything’s so instant these days. How can we? Dinner in minutes. A thousand photographs in one burst. You have to “like” something this second. You have to know how you feel about everything. You can’t be unsure or confused or change your mind. There’s no time to figure out who you are. You have to know right now.

Have you ever seen a flower grow? I mean of course not. It’s nearly impossible to wait for anything that takes that long. But if you did, it would change you. It would slow you down. It would remind you that real things take time. And it’s magic, too, isn’t it? I mean so are 1,000 photographs in one burst. But a flower. You plant a seed in the ground and a whole world develops and stretches out and opens up. It’s easy to get confused when we’re moving so fast and to think we’re doing the right thing when really we’re not. But if we’re lucky we could find a balance. We could take a step back. We could take a breath. The next time that you see a flower sticking up out of the ground or in a vase, just remember that part of what makes it beautiful is how long it took to grow.

Do you want to do nothing with me?

It's bad if we want to know what's going on outside ourselves. Eyes and ears are okay most of the time. But sometimes they just get in the way. The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are shaking. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then-maybe- the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.

I am both

You think things have to be real or magic, but the best things are both. 

Spilling sunlight, passing wind, just realize, I feel so fine

혼자라는 편안함 속
피어오른 외로움도
이제는 다
I can let it go
지구 반대편 어딘가
내게 외쳐온 메아리 

I am good and lost now

For certain, you have to be lost to find a place as can't be found. Elseways, everyone would know where it was.

It’s not gone, just enfolded

Don’t worry. It’s not gone, just enfolded.
Love is always there.
Even if you don’t feel it, it’s always there for you.

Wonders await you just on the other side

Ay, oruguitas
Don't you hold on too tight
Both of you know
It's your time to grow
To fall apart, to reunite
Wonders await you
Just on the other side
Trust they'll be there
And start to prepare
The way for tomorrow

What should be done

Just because it's what's done doesn't mean it's what should be done.

Home sweet home, I like the new foundation

The stars don’t shine. They burn, and the constellation shifts. The seasons change in turn.
We see how bright you burn. We see how brave you’ve been. Now, see yourself in turn.

I woke up to the sound of soft rain

더 깊어 갈 모든 순간

Quiescence

When one chooses to become conscious, not be entangled in the compulsive nature of existence, she naturally chooses to become silent.

Charged, but still

Only when one’s vision falls upon something beyond survival, then she will think of stillness, then she will understand as she observes herself, as she notices, the complexity of one’s compulsions, she understands the only way to solve it is to become still.

When alone, I act as though I am in a large community

In a large community, she lives as though she is alone.
She minds her own business without meddling in others’.
When alone, she acts as though she is in a large community.
She follows her regimen without sliding into laziness.

That space is our power, an opportunity to shift the energy

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Viktor E. Frankl

It just is

The world isn’t inherently joyful or sad; it just is.
Our reality is not the infinitely stretching cosmos but the small part we choose to focus on. The world is experienced according to the state of one’s mind. Remember you are not powerless. When your mind rests, the world also rests.

Do you want to see?

Just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved it there because no one bothered her, she could put on her plain Jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we’re walking down, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’ - and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognising her if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before. 

Find me

I have no clue what’s going on in “the world”.
I have every clue what’s going on in my world and if something is important enough it will find me.

It’s not about them

My life is not about them. It’s about me. It’s about how I am. This is about me. It doesn’t matter how they are. That’s their choice. But how I am is my choice. This is my way. No matter what they do. I’m like this. Because I have not given that freedom to anybody, that somebody can freak me, somebody can make me angry. Somebody can make me happy, somebody can make me unhappy. These privileges I kept to myself. What happens around us is not a hundred percent ours, but what happens within me must be my making. 

Papa, do you think I’m odd?

“I knew a girl who was so different, so daring, so ahead of her time that people mocked her until the day they found themselves imitating her. She used to say, ‘The people who talk behind your back are destined to stay there. Behind your back. Never to catch up.’ ”

Restore order with imagination

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again