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No matter where I go, I still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I’m still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as I’ll come to defining myself.
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun (via betweenheavenandmisery)
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If we are taken over by craving, no matter who or what is before us, all we can see is how it might satisfy our needs. This kind of thirst contracts our body and mind into a profound trance. We move through the world with a kind of tunnel vision that prevents us from enjoying what is in front of us. The color of an autumn leaves or a passage of poetry merely amplifies the feeling that there is a gaping hole in our life. The smile of a child only reminds us that we are painfully childless. We turn away from simple pleasures because our craving compels us to seek more intense stimulation or numbing relief.
— Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing your Life with the Heart of Buddha
Posted on May 15, 2012 (♥ 6)
+ Tara Brach + buddha + acceptance + craving + urge + impulse + tunnel vision + satisfy + needs + feeling + empty + numb + relief
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Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
— ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Posted on April 28, 2012 (♥ 6)
+ Haruki Murakami + loneliness + yearning + satisfy + isolating + nourish
