hesse

Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it is, everything only requires my consent, only my willingness, my loving agreement, to be good for me, to do nothing but work for my benefit, to be unable to ever harm me. I have experienced on my body and on my soul that I needed sin very much, I needed lust, the desire for possessions, vanity, and needed the most shameful despair, in order to learn how to give up all resistance, in order to learn how to love the world, in order to stop comparing it to some world I wished, I imagined, some kind of perfection I had made up, but to leave it as it is and to love it and to enjoy being a part of it.

getting by

Though living on my own is a lot of fun.

I certainly have a new found respect for my moms ability to retain socks through loads of laundry.

I have much to learn.

lao tzu

47

There is no need to run outside

For better seeing,

Nor to peer from a window. Rather abide 

At the center of your being;

For the more you leave it, the less you learn.

Search your heart and see

If he is wise who takes each turn

The way to do is to be.