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“Every person exists in their own shallow bowl, and they can’t see over the rim,” he explained. “But they think that their world is the world—the truth. When in reality, no two bowls are identical, and all people are stuck trapped in their own.”
“No,” Aaron cut me off. I could see a sparking confidence in Aaron’s pupils, which seemed to be smiling. “You will. Remember to believe in yourself.”
Out of the mouthes of babes
an admission of uncertainty is so often, in our culture, seen as weakness. Yet it is only when a mind admits I do not know that it becomes open to unseen possibility, and honest inquiry. It’s as if discovery becomes possible only when the fixed channels of one’s mind become electric, charged with the untamed energy of wonder. In this way, humility is the necessary precondition for all learning.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
I want to want to be in a loving relationship in which he and I are equals, I don’t want to speak disparagingly of myself, to tell him how I can’t do this, how I’m bad at that, how I need him; without him I would be lost.
When a person becomes discontent with his or her world, three options surface: attempt to transform the problematic aspect of the status quo; or accept it; or leave it.
“was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary.”
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
Not realizing we are in a moment
thought about how we have to feel accepted in relationships as we are. How, spending so much time with one chosen person, we need to feel totally comfortable to be ourselves in their presence. Not picked apart. Not pressured.
We would have lasted as long as we understood and respected each other—which, in the end, we didn’t. We were both looking for our needs to be met in the other.
