"Many people still confuse ‘attachment’ with ‘love.’ Attachments are about fear and dependency, and have more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you, because you’re empty. It’s about what you can give others — because you’re already full."
— Yasmin Mogahed (via nirvikalpa)
(Source: heartofabeliever, via liberatormagazine)
"I hadn’t gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it’s only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you’re time-traveling. In this life we grow backwards."
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (via devilduck)
(via dreaminginthedeepsouth)
"If space is the field for memory, and if memory is the basis of our narrative self-invention, then we must live in some seam between inside and outside, some corridor between the place we make and the place that makes us."
— Richard Powers (via thequietwalk)