Eterno Tolo

“‪Everybody acts out a myth,‬ ‪but very few people know what their myth is.‬

“You are not committed to something unless you’re willing to sacrifice for it; commitment and sacrifice are the same thing.”

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Sometimes people walk away from love because it is so beautiful that it terrifies them. Sometimes they leave because the connection shines a bright light on their dark places and they are not ready to work them through. Sometimes they run away because they are not developmentally prepared to merge with another- they have more individuation work to do first. Sometimes they take off because love is not a priority in their lives- they have another path and purpose to walk first. Sometimes they end it because they prefer a relationship that is more practical than conscious, one that does not threaten the ways that they organize reality. Because so many of us carry shame, we have a tendency to personalize love’s leavings, triggered by the rejection and feelings of abandonment. But this is not always true. Sometimes it has nothing to do with us. Sometimes the one who leaves is just not ready to hold it safe. Sometimes they know something we don’t – they know their limits at that moment in time. Real love is no easy path – readiness is everything. May we grieve loss without personalizing it. May we learn to love ourselves in the absence of the lover.

Whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am whole again.

You were once wild. Don’t let them tame you.

He was lost. She thought she could help him find himself, but it turns out she couldn’t. So he left, only for her to realize that trying to find him, she lost herself.

This dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

I traced your scars with my fingertips with the selfish intention of one day having a place of my own on your canvas of a body.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.