Status Updates From Vivir, amar y aprender

“for most of us never mature; we simply grow taller…. happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable…. the purpose of life is to matter— to count, to stand for something, to have it make some difference that we lived at all.”

“but the most important needs of all are what we need in ourselves— a need to be seen, a need to be known, a need to be recognized, a need for achievement, a need to enjoy our world, a need to see the continual wonder of life, a need to be able to see how wonderful it is to be alive.”

i am neither a sacrilege or a privilege. i may not be competent or excellent, but i am present

“perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself” ~ saint- exupéry
“ i have no definition of love, but that comes the closest to being the healthiest one i’ve heard. not to whom i want you to be, but to who you are.”

“we think much less than what we know. we know much less than what we love. we love much less than what there is. and to this precise extent, we are much less than what we are”