“It is love, not reason, … which is stronger than death, and from that alone can flow the sweetness of civilisation. Reason in itself is too abstract and impersonal a force to face down death. But such love, to be authentic, must live ‘always in silent recognition of the blood-sacrifice.” One must honour beauty, idealism, and the hunger for progress, while confessing in Marxist or Nietzschean style how much blood and wretchedness lie at their root.”
— Terry Eagleton, summarising Thomas Mann’s argument in The Magic Mountain (Reason, Faith and Revolution, pp.163f.)

live, laugh, love. do this daily, with absolutely everything in you & never look back. there are few things more important in this earthly existence. no regrets.

Shakti - The primordial force that sets the Universe in motion.

there's beauty in the breakdown..

lost in my own fragility, I must never forget how the music frees me..

I felt you in every fairytale romance, in every stolen kiss..

“You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!”
— Eckhart Tolle

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.”
— Martha Nussbaum