Get To Where It’s Silent

William Haskell

“It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your head or heart, say This is happiness, because of the simple truth that you were alive to say it.”

― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

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It takes courage to do the thing you want. Other people have many plans for you. Nobody wants you to do what you want to do. I made it. I went to the forest and read for five years. ′′

Joseph Campbell

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Nothing happens.
Nobody comes,
nobody goes.
It’s awful.

— Samuel Beckett

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When we experience inner impoverishment, love for another too easily becomes hunger: for reassurance, for acclaim, for affirmation of our worth. Feeling incomplete inside ourselves, we search for others to complete us. But the equation doesn’t work that way: we can’t gain from others what we’re unable to give ourselves.

— Sharon Salzberg

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“In Paradise everything is permitted, except curiosity.”