"Chaos and commotion wherever I go,
Love I try to follow."

~ Brett Dennen

"I cannot imagine how we forgive ourselves for all of the things we didn’t say until it was too late."

~ Doc Luben

"Finding the dickhead inside [lead to] actually finding quite a liberation."

~ Damien Rice

I want, I don’t want.
How can one live with such a heart?

~ Margaret Atwood

All I have is all I need
And all I need is here now

"The choice isn’t between religion and the secular world, as it is now — the challenge is to learn from religions so we can fill the secular world with replacements for the things we long ago made up religion to provide. The challenge begins here."

~ Alain de Botton

"We cannot receive love, however, if we are not open to the raw and tender experience of wanting it. Suppressing or denying desire shuts down our openness to receiving nourishment, and thus only intensifies our hunger."

~ John Welwood

"Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration. And this is where I think language came from."

You are a traveler,
you know the open, hostile smiles
of those stuck in their lives.
Make a fire.

~ Stephen Dunn

"This simple act of acceptance – which may only last a few seconds – offers a taste of that open space of essence love, an acceptance of the warmth that is your basic nature, the heart of your own being."

~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche

There’s a place in my brain
where hate won’t grow.

~ Naomi Shihab Nye

"The quite cynical response would be to say, Why we love nihilism in pop culture is that it saves us having to be burdened with it. It saves us from feeling it. We can enjoy it in our rooms. We can get off on it. And then we let it go and we go back to work." ~ Simon Critchley 

It’s okay to feel, deeply.
It’s okay to not know. 
It’s okay to play 
on the raw edge of life.