Jorge Luis Borges, "I Am Not Even Dust"

Father, when I start doubting myself, remind me who You say I am. I refuse to let fear talk me out of my purpose. In Jesus Name, amen.

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

Amen ✝️

“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”

— Haruki Murakami

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

Mineko Iwasaki

Vilnius Bernardine Cemetery covered in blue scillas Vilnius, Lithuania | April 2025

“The mountains of truth you will never climb in vain.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, 358

Rainy day in Kyoto