“Accepting life means opening ourselves up to uncertainty and the vast range of possibilities it offers. While things could go wrong, they could also go right, especially in ways we cannot anticipate.” Read more: suliqyre.substack.com/p/to-accept-...

“To Accept Life”, etc. (391-395)

Acceptance means seeing ourselves as always-changing, as beings capable of becoming more than we already are.

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“These days I am in a super-acute, a hyped-up life. It never goes to sleep. And yet all the events of this hyped-up life seem to be cut from the hyperdream. All of them turn up accompanied by a voice that murmurs to my heart “it’s not going to last.” — Hélène Cixous, Hyperdream

“We have the tendency to believe that criticizing an artwork might cause it irreparable harm. But what is valuable in an artwork can no more be harmed by language than nature or humanity or the universe itself.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/invinc...

“Ever since sentences started to circulate in brains devoted to reflection, an effort at total identification has been made, because with the aid of a copula each sentence ties one thing to another; (1/2)

“I want to know that things are not as bad as they seem. I want to be able to see a way out of the difficulty. But what I instead discover is that the situation truly is bad and it's likely to get worse.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/findin...

“Life is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it.” — Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“The heat demands action. It is telling his body to get up and do something. But he cannot figure out what.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/overhe...

“To write is, moreover, to withdraw language from the world, to detach it from what makes it a power according to which, when I speak, it is the world that declares itself, the clear light of day that develops through tasks undertaken, through action and time.” — Maurice Blanchot

“Awareness might be thought of as a kind of memory we have formed. But unlike the memories we can directly recall and explore, awareness only reaches us through intuitions that arise from it.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/experi...

“That, as of old, was the writer’s job, maybe his primary job. To show us the futures we didn’t want, and the futures we could have if we wanted.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“You have too much power and you don't know how to use it. You can see more than an animal is supposed to see. You can reflect on your past actions and plan your future actions, which causes you to develop all sorts of intentions.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/a-bett...

“Art, the art of living, involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence of a way of life, which, if it is not crazy is certainly different from the accepted way of life.” — Henry Miller, The Cosmological Eye

“This isn't your fault. You didn't ask for this power, you had it thrust upon you. But you have to work with the lot you've been given. You have to learn to live in a way that doesn't produce so much pain and suffering.” Read more: suliqyre.substack.com/p/a-better-h...

“A Better Human”, etc. (386-390)

You've been given too much power and you don't know how to use it.

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“Good or bad are theoretical stipulations according to which, by a philosophical decision, many scattered instances of the most different facts or acts become the same thing. (1/2)

“A text never has the completeness or finality that it might seem to possess. There is always something beyond it — a kind of truth that it can point to but never contain.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/texts-...

“The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don’t write. ... To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.” — Stanisław Lem, Hospital of the Transfiguration

“The experience of beauty is always joyful. It seems to meet some profound need that lives inside me. At the same time, the beautiful transcends whatever pleasure it brings. It seems to indicate a greater truth about the world or the being that I am.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/the-jo...

“I am a little scared: scared of surrendering completely because the next instant is the unknown. The next instant, do I make it? or does it make itself? We make it together with our breath. And with the flair of the bullfighter in the ring.” — Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

“She feels there isn't any purpose in forming relationships where there's anything less than total honesty. Complete openness and unrelenting sincerity is what makes her life exciting. For living like this means she's always taking risks.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/never-...

“Never under any circumstances ask ‘how.’ When you use the word how you really want someone to tell you what to do, some guide, some system, somebody to lead you by the hand so that you lose your freedom, your capacity to observe, ... your own way of life.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti, Total Freedom

“In this universe, past events are remembered and recalled, which means the present is always contextualized by the past. In the other universe, little is remembered but the present never feels out of place.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/the-un...

“The signification of the myth is constituted by a sort of constantly moving turnstile which presents alternately the meaning of the signifier and its form, a language-object and a metalanguage, a purely signifying and a purely imagining consciousness. (1/2)

“Seeing everything does not mean seeing every last detail of it. Details can easily become distractions, especially if you become preoccupied with tracking every last change when the changes are insignificant.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/anxiou...

“My soul does everything it can to repair the irreparable.” — Hélène Cixous, Love Itself: In the Letter Box

“Instead of being distracted by trivialities, you need to allow your focus to return to those creative and compassionate actions that are the solutions to the real problems you face.” Read more: suliqyre.substack.com/p/anxious-at...

“Anxious Attention”, etc. (381-385)

To see clearly is to grasp the reality of your present situation and understand what must be done in response.

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“The spectacle erases the dividing line between self and world, in that the self, under siege by the presence/absence of the world, is eventually overwhelmed; (1/2)

“The problem of awareness — and the problem of suffering itself — is solved through nothing other than attention. If I allow myself to keep looking at everything, the conditions for freedom from suffering will begin to establish themselves in me.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/lookin...

“I do not think that more information always makes a richer poem. I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary.” — Louise Glück, Proofs and Theories

“An artwork can teach us something about the world at large and the artist that created it, just as well as it can teach us something about ourselves and the attachments that drive our opinion of it.” Read more: suliqyre.com/posts/shifti...

“Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.” — Henry Miller, The Cosmological Eye