HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (2004) Dir. Hayao Miyazaki

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.

Sylvia Plath

“It is better to find your courage to make changes when you can choose to rather than being forced to. If you do not make change, change will make you.”

— Roy T. Bennett

Últimamente, he pensado mucho en el tiempo, mi tiempo y lo pequeña que me siento ante la magnitud de las cosas que no me alcanzan. A veces me miden, a veces me aplastan, a veces me vencen. Pienso quizá también soy yo quien somete a mi cuerpo a tal peso. Me orillo, cedo y acepto ante mi apertura todo que, aunque quiera, ya no cabe en mi reloj. Y ahí entiendo, que lo que más importa no es correr, ni llenar el día de cosas que no caben en el alma, que a veces vivir es saber detenerse antes de romperse, antes de dejar que el tiempo decida por mí. Porque hay relojes que no marcan segundos, pero sí cicatrices, y yo ya no quiero medirme por lo que no alcanzo, sino por lo que todavía me sostiene.

-Cielo V / -chipnervous.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

-Sogyal Rinpoche

“There were days when she was very happy without knowing why. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in. And she found it good to dream and to be alone and unmolested.There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why—when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation”

— Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Me and my love for isolation against the world

Jajaja, me ofende pero lo tomo.