Do you know what you get when you try to escape? When you drive for miles in a deserted city or swim for hours in a shoreless sea? You get yourself.
Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classical music and getting drunk off of stunning vistas of mountains and waterfalls, all of it isn’t worth a dime if you aren’t sharing it with someone. Everything amounts to that. True, we must experience most things in solitude to grow, create, destroy and grow again, but our pleasure and joy reaches a threshold in isolation. It is the worst thing to become an island. One must become the whole world.
Why is your skin the best feeling in the world?
The thing about love is that you will never run out of it. It’s an ever-flowing river. So go ahead and LOVE. What are you saving all this love for – death?
Love is the only reason that is reason enough.
Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.
Beauty is the manifestation of love.
First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.
I used to be lost in us. Blurred were the lines that separated us. But now, I see our togetherness in our separateness. I see the you in me and the me in you. We are two independent beings who complement one another like photographs that are beautiful on their own but are enhanced when juxtaposed, creating an altogether new photograph.
Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.
Last night, I repeated your name like a mantra before falling asleep. Somehow the simple pleasure of uttering your name, and the added pleasure of hearing your name was heaven for me and I didn’t go to bed until dawn. Isn’t it odd how your name, a single word associated with you, can bring another person such joy that they inflict insomnia upon themselves and call it a blessing?
Being deeply, passionately, and intensely in love is being deeply, passionately, and intensely in life.
Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.
Poetry is seeing everything when there is only one thing. It is looking at a rose but seeing the stars, moons, seas, and trees. It is a truth beyond logic, an experience beyond thought. Poetry is the Earth pausing on its axis in order to manifest itself as a rose.
You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask.
The greatest thing about me isn’t even a part of me. It’s you.
The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be.
Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.
Let borders become sunlight so we traverse this Earth as one nation and drive the darkness out.
I wish for all of us the blindness of love that makes us see no faults in the other.