“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.”
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
Source: 1980s, That Benediction is Where You Are (1985), p. 18
Context: From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it. How to write becomes a problem to the child. Please follow this carefully. Mathematics becomes a problem, history becomes a problem, as does chemistry. So the child is educated, from childhood, to live with problems — the problem of God, problem of a dozen things. So our brains are conditioned, trained, educated to live with problems. From childhood we have done this. What happens when a brain is educated in problems? It can never solve problems; it can only create more problems. When a brain that is trained to have problems, and to live with problems, solves one problem, in the very solution of that problem, it creates more problems. From childhood we are trained, educated to live with problems and, therefore, being centred in problems, we can never solve any problem completely. It is only the free brain that is not conditioned to problems that can solve problems. It is one of our constant burdens to have problems all the time. Therefore our brains are never quiet, free to observe, to look. So we are asking: Is it possible not to have a single problem but to face problems? But to understand those problems, and to totally resolve them, the brain must be free.
“Love is awful…. It's all any of us want, and it's hell when we get there.”
Love is awful. It's awful. It's painful. It's frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. It makes you selfish. It makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do. It's all any of us want, and it's hell when we get there. So no wonder it's something we don't want to own. I was taught if we're born with love then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot, feeling right, when it feels right it's easy. But I'm not sure that's true. It takes strength to know what's right. And love isn't something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. I think that what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope.
“Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.”
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.”
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
““What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water””
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.”
Source: Florentine Histories (Florentské letopisy)
“The more you love, the more you suffer.”
“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
“No one is going to value you more than you value yourself.”
“I try all things, I achieve what I can.”
Source: Moby-Dick (Bílá velryba)
