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Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. ↗

— Charles Nodier

#fall #melancholy #melancholy

More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. There was something pained and melancholy about it. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#gansey #stiefvater #the-raven-boys #the-raven-cycle #melancholy

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#pleasure #melancholy

solitude begins with a time and a place for God, and God alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but also that God is actively present in our lives-- healing, teaching and guiding-- we need to set aside a time and space to give God our undivided attention. (Matt 6:6) ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#classics

I appreciate the gesture, but you don't have to undress in order to apologize ↗

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#paranromal #suspense #thriller #thriller

Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out. ↗

— Ryokan

#buddhist #hermit #japan #japanese #monk

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean. ↗

— Jon J. Muth

#neighbors #spelling #zen #ocean

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#dissociation #mind #stoicism #transcendence #zen

Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas. ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#flies #zen #zen

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space? ↗

— D.T. Suzuki

#transcendence #universe #zen #zen