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I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

We are as much feeling beings as we are thinking beings.

For as much as reason can save us from demise, from the waywardness of our circumstances and our emotions, it can, in its obstinance and confinement within its own system, just as easily hinder the will to change and to adapt, or worse, shield us from what could be our richest and most profound experiences or realizations in this life.