SKEPTICS & TRUE BELIEVERS

““Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.””

“When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying, ‘You’re too this, or I’m too this.’ That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”

“…but what I like doing best is Nothing.” “How do you do Nothing?” asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time. […] “It means just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”

If it speaks to your heart, allow space for that.

I am still a child. I am still curious about the silliest things. I am still afraid when people ask me what I want in life because I don’t know what I want in life. Everything perhaps?

I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.

People start to heal the moment they feel heard.