your own being

i wish i could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being
hafiz

© 2012 by Rachel Lowry. All rights reserved {photo via sabino and burrs&berries}

Monday Quote

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. 

Aldo Leopold

Monday Quote

We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Ulysses, Lord Tennyson

Monday Quote

Every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Monday Quote

Let people feel the weight of who you are and let them deal with it.

John Eldridge

Just for Tonight

Tonight, dearest friends, I ask for not only your ear, but also your shoulder. You see, as I attempt to piece together the wild thoughts of my teeming mind, I address you with a solemnity that can only come from those things we can hardly shape into vowels, or put into words. It's a feeling, a thought, a suspicion which has driven me to reckless attempts to make good in a battle of colliding shades of grey.

When I was young, my sense of morality (though a quivering droplet hewn from the rifts of a great ocean) drove me to freely choose abandonment in one pivotal instance. For years, I would grapple with and attempt to make sense of my decision and the ramifications that followed. This week has brought on a slew of questions and re-assessments of certain assumptions under which I operate.

As always, the gentle and delicious words of Ms. Charlotte Bronte soften my discontent:

I have no conclusion, for some things cannot be wrapped neatly into a package. Some things must be left to grow, expand, and perhaps one day, sprout wings.

© 2011 by Rachel Lowry. All rights Reserved.

Monday Quote

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

Aldo Leopold

Sunday Quote

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Monday Quote

My consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Monday Quote

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anais Nin

delete

The goal of this life: to discover who you are.

Before you remember.

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Monday Quote

In the depths of my soul, I longed to be a part of something large and good; something that required all of me; something dangerous and worth dying for.

John & Stasi Eldredge, Captivating
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