World adorned with dreams and yearning,
Rain down on our deserts,
Rain down, but shake us, palms of the wound,
And break two branches off for us
From the trees that love the silence of the wound,
From the trees with arched lashes and hands
That keep vigil over the wound.

World adorned with dreams and yearning,
World falling in my brow,
Drawn like the wound,
Come no closer—the wound is closer than you.
Don’t tempt me—the wound is more beautiful,
And the wound has passed by that enchantment
Cast by your eyes
In the last kingdoms,
Passed without leaving a sail to tempt it astray,
Without leaving it an island.

"Time spent with cats is never wasted."

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me
with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
― Arthur Schopenhauer

Saruman believes it is great power that can hold evil in check. But, that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.

There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

I do so dearly believe that no half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

Vaba Do'Shurh'do- It is good to be brave

<Snipped quote by Saint Kassiani>

"Strike! But listen!"

"A cat is only technically an animal, being divine."

...Then I placed
my mask on a stone, and walked as the sleepless
walk, led by my dream. And from one moon
to another I leapt...

I said: You killed me ... and I forgot, like you, to die.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

"A cat is a cat, always."