11/13

Regardless of who you end up being to me,

Or who I end up being to you,

I hope we can both say that we made each other better.

For whatever that actually means.

11/7

Why do I have a heavy heart?

Not engrossed by infatuation, nor consumed by desire, nor possessed by obsession,

But simply filled with a strange, peculiar longing for some kind of love,

shrouded with an uncertain, faint yearning to connect with another soul,

Or this momentous feeling that something—something that will change my life forever—is slowly emerging from the horizon.

What changed?

11/6

Humility opens many doors to truth, and arrogance closes many of them.

But the hardest part perhaps is realizing that there that remain open for the latter and remain closed for the former.

And since when was it the number of doors that mattered?

10/26

Every day is a chaotic, wayward dance between the mind and the heart.

It is all that makes life interesting, and simultaneously all that makes it miserable.

10/25

There are consequences to our action and inaction alike.

Yes—perhaps it is indeed impossible to achieve the change we want to see in the world. But if we haven’t truly tried—if we aren’t continuously trying—how can we know?

We are all complicit in the failures of humanity. The only factor is whether we choose to feel a sense of guilt about it or not.

10/19

It may seem brave of me—to go out in the world and stand for what’s good in the face of evil, for what’s right in the shadow of what’s wrong—but what do I truly have to lose? What am I afraid of?

I am here for this very purpose.

If I recognize what is right, with mindfulness, patience, intention, awareness, and discernment,

I will say what needs to be said,

I will do what needs to be done,

and I will never take back the words that come from this mouth,

and I will never regret what I choose to do.

10/17

We’re all wrong in some way.

Though what actually matters is that we remember that we’re all also right in some way.

To search for, and to find that truth ensconced deep within us—this is the purpose of our existence.

10/15

Remember—it is a privilege to struggle.

We must savor this state of being, of having to overcome something, of this uncertain, liminal space between suffering and happiness.

10/8

What we should be patient for? And what we should be desperate for?

What can wait? And what cannot wait?

These are unavoidable questions at the core of the human condition that we must answer somehow, and in some way.

The only thing is that we usually get those answers wrong.

10/6

If I cannot handle the struggles of this present moment,

If I take all this luxury, comfort, and abundance for granted,

If every small misstep is a catastrophe,

If I cannot bear this tame and transitory suffering,

especially that which I have wrought and manufactured by my own doing,

then how will I ever be ready for when the world truly needs me?