I don’t pray for the strength to stand in a picket line or earn enough credentials to make policy change. I pray for the strength to ask a stranger if they’re okay when I hear them yelp, or give a homeless woman a few dollars without obsessing about utility or my own moral state.

Believe in fantasy before it’s too late.

In the grand scheme of things, keeping your clothes clean is not as important as the joy of jumping in puddles.

Simply existing lends myself to countless statistics. I am wielded for causes of which I know nothing. Please listen, our lives are not the result of poorly laid plans. If something should ever happen to me, forgive forgive forgive.

I want my life to be like the artist who painted the same tree every day and every season. I want that to be my life.

From the Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer

freedom from ambition

From "Dreams (1990)" by Akira Kurosawa

We’re awarding ourselves power that we don’t have. We have power because we keep assuming that we do.

A belief in radical alterity is necessary to stop seeking control. If one thinks that their mind can reside in every man then they will try to control the mind of every man.

I do not want my voice to be valued only for the weight it lends to either side of an argument.

1 week at the beach

One of the best things about being Christian is remembering that I am free to love the people everyone hates.

I just don’t know how to say no to another cup of coffee. I just don’t know how long do I gaze at the sea until I've had my fill.

I always walk the same route home so I know when the flowers are in full bloom. And I know when they start to wilt.

Everything was under his power, so he served. He was the light of life, so he hid. When the crowd tried to crown him, the prince of peace fled. In him was the way of eternal life, so he died.

The lights at night still give me comfort. And I don’t actually care if this coffee keeps me up all night.

How I imagine my office hours to go when I become a professor.

Telling me that if I only gave up my religion then all would be well, is no different from saying that if I only adopted a religion then all would be well. I am wary of anyone who posits a conclusion.

오늘 마음에 든 대사

We’re both here too Even if it surprises us Even if we don’t want it You and I

Did you know that the world has always been bigger than this?

‘Flowers by the stream do not remember the despair they hear.’

I often wonder if deeply studying a topic unveils its truth or atomizes and distributes it into ready categories.

Somewhere in the world they’re baking. I’m so glad. I’m so glad.

Stories that exist in your head are still stories that exist.

I'm so thankful that I had the opportunity to speak about this great book!

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Jie-Hyun Lim interviewed by @ginsengamericano.bsky.social about his book, 'Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age', for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

This was such an enjoyable interview, and an enjoyable book! "Suh posits that literature’s relevance to society lies in seemingly nihilistic sacrifice, viewing literature not as a proxy for politics but as the art of imagination in language." newbooksnetwork.com/against-the-...

The trees do no mind when they’re felled to make a fence. The ground doesn’t note when it’s covered in cement. The rock doesn’t care that you’ve carved in it your name. The narratives we create will prove fictions in the end.

From "That" by Oh Eun, Trans. by Seth Chandler