e l i s a b e t h

To be loving isn't to be perfect—it's to be connected and warm both with ourselves and others. It's to be residing in the humble heart.

“Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves.”

“I experience life through reflection, contemplation, and self-examination. Things do not come fully alive to me in the moment—I am not fully present, neither here or there. I remain partially in my mind, partially in my body, and partially in this world. The “whole” experience of things do not come to me at once; rather, things come to me in fragments, in pieces, in flashes, gradually and gently. I respond to the richness of the external world through the delicacies of my internal world that emerges from solitude. Without the dance between the two [external and internal], I cannot quite say I have truly experienced an event, a place, or a person. Once I have stepped out into the world, I must continue to step back into my mind for me to register something in fact did happen, that what I experienced is true, and that I in fact, exist.”