World of Sri Vidyā from Gifts from the Goddess by Michael M. Bowden
She demands a great deal from life; she reads, dreams of love —always of love.
Ivan Turgenev, A Correspondence (1855)
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The human condition is to avoid pain as much as possible - we want only pleasure and happiness, but pain is necessary to become our best selves.
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“My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Searoad (via quotespile)
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