shadow

Be remembering, my friend, your greatest gift to yourself is your shadows, for this is what expresses your depth.

Elias

hexagonal galleries

“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.” ― Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

axis of relationship

"A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”
Jorge Luis Borge

decorate your soul

You Learn.
You Learn
After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn...
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure...
That you really are strong
And you really do have worth...
And you learn and learn...
With every good-bye you learn.” ―
Jorge Luis Borges

grains of sand

“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
Jorge Luis Borges

nothing more than a guided dream

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Jorge Luis Borge

deep down

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be
put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or
later all men will do and know all things.
Jorge Luis Borges