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When a storm comes, it stays for some time, and then it goes.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Be Free Where You Are
She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through.
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
"A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.”
David Whyte • Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
I think of all those creatures that have plunged deep into the dark and uncharted realms of alterity and have returned metamorphosed; able to face “what’s coming” at their own pace, they go on with what’s been entrusted to them under the sea, underground, in the sky, in the lake, in the belly, in the teeth.