“—all the colour began to go from the moor. The blue turned to purple; the white became livid as at the approach of a violent but windless storm. Pink faces went green, and it became colder than ever. This was the defeat of the sun.”

Virginia Woolf, “The Sun and the Fish” (as cited in A. Carson’s “Totality : The Colour of Eclipse”, Decreation)

“Love is the vanished echo
From the throat of a wounded bird,
And time is an endless nothing
When desire is only a word.”

Jacqueline Sinclair Shafer, from “When Desire is Only a Word,” Poetry (October 1934)

“Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.”

Don Miguel Ruiz (via quotemadness)

“Here is the full moon
bringing us
silence”

W.S. Merwin, from Wild Oats in “The Moon Before Morning”
(via adrasteiax)

“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”

Virginia Woolf, “The Waves”   (via loveage-moondream)

“Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
All soft and still and fair;
The solemn hour of midnight
Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,”

Emily Brontë, from “Moonlight, Summer Moonlight” (via theclassicsreader)

“I want to feel what I feel. What’s mine. Even if it’s not happiness, whatever that means. Because you’re all you’ve got.”

Toni Morrison (via larmoyante)

“If you give yourself one complete minute of focused presence,
to simply stop — even to listen to your heart beating — it will take you out of your head and introduce you to the moment…which is complete in itself.
It is not on the way to another moment.
It is not a bridge to another opportunity.
It is the timeless perfection…
So stop…and sink into this timeless moment.”

Mooji
(via abiding-in-peace)