April 28, 2012

We don't have to let go, we simply have to not hold on. ~ Joseph Goldstein (from "Empty Phenomena Rolling On")

March 03, 2012

Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch.  None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed.  But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love.  Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity. ~ Henri Nouwen

October 01, 2011

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief.
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.

~ Robert Frost

September 22, 2011

Don't let anyone, even your parents, break you.  Find good people who care about you and surround yourself with just them.  If you can't find them at first, find good music and fall into it, let it hold you until they come. ~ Davey Havok

June 08, 2011

I imagine the reason that people hold on to hatred so stubbornly is because if the hate is removed, the pain will set in. ~ James Baldwin

January 19, 2011

Big Brother isn't watching.  He's singing and dancing.  He's pulling rabbits out of a hat.  Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake.  He's making sure you're always distracted.  He's making sure you're fully absorbed.  -- Chuck Palahniuk (from "Lullaby")

September 17, 2010

If you can lie on the floor without holding on, you're sober. ~ Billy Connolly

July 25, 2010

Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~ Buddha