Andre Alexis Quotes
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There's a tangle between weakness and vulnerability.
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Beyond the hills, a master is who knows our secret names. With bell and bones, he’ll call us home, winter, fall or spring.
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Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.
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We are stuck with not knowing what our actions will actually lead to.
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As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that will be necessarily beneficial to another, or necessarily detrimental.
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The group of people in front of her was jovial and paid her no attention. The group behind was much the same. She was alone without being alone.
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Just listen to these people. You'd swear they understood each other though not one of them has any idea what their words actually mean to another.
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Perfect understanding between beings is no guarantor of happiness. To perfectly understand another's madness, for instance, is to be mad oneself. The veil that separates earthly beings is, at times, a tragic barrier, but it is also, at times, a great kindness.
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The important thing for me is that one accepts that one is irretrievably flawed and as you say, takes responsibility for those flaws, rather than hiding them in some code that allows "this" and doesn't allow "that" as if there were a way of being sure of how to be good in the world.
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The light that moves is not the light. The light that stays is not the light. The true light rose countless sleeps ago. It rose, even in the mouth of birds.