8/20

At what point does regret and shame shift from an impetus to do things better or differently, to merely weighing down our soul, to oppressing our conscience, to distorting reason and clarity of mind?

Are we truly so vigilant to control these emotions before they destroy our lives here in this present moment? Can we truly be so careless? When there’s so much to be done, so many people that depend on us, and an ever-diminishing amount of time?

8/18

"Just look up, break down, and believe."

—Cary Brothers, The Glass Parade

8/17

Do we actually seek for others to understand us with straightforwardness and clarity?

If so, why do we arouse their emotions, the very thing that ultimately obstructs our pathway towards a greater truth?

8/16

There is truth that is found when we search for it,

And there is truth that is found precisely when we don’t.

8/15

Not enough time, and yet, not enough patience.

8/14

There are reasons why we thought what we thought, why we believed what we believed, and ultimately why we did what we did.

We can’t just pretend as if those reasons didn’t exist after the fact.

We can do what we can do now, in this moment, and there’s nothing else to it.

The circumstances were as they were. And they are as they are. What’s left is simply a choice now, in this present moment—if we are so able—to do better now.

8/13

We could’ve done better.

Well, then why didn’t we?

8/12

To live out our days as if they were the last; to approach the world as if every we could make a difference; to think of every action as having an incomprehensibly complex cascading chain of consequence—these are among the most difficult things to internalize within our consciousness.

8/11

How lamentable it is to be trapped by ignorance—to have neither the capacity nor knowledge to break free of our own impulses and our natural mode of thought.

If we suffer, we will continue to suffer.

If we are unable to be happy, we will continue to be unhappy.

If we inflict suffering on others, we will continue to inflict suffering.

It is a game of simply waiting, to merely drift around in the world, tugged by our circumstances until they decide to lay perfectly to our favor—to help us realize a change and the value of a change.

8/8

It’s not about looking on the bright side—to merely ignore the suffering and the ugliness of the world, because it’s inevitable to resurface; it’s about reorienting the mind to see how something is the way it’s supposed to be on either side, and that we can be at peace with the circumstances we’ve been given.