The ethereal.

This is about the ethereal; the delicate and light beauty that almost seems too perfect for this world, lingering in the space 
between reality and fantasy... 
in poetry
  in pictures
in literature
and in art. 
It's about life.  
It's about dreams. 
But mostly....
it's about you.
  And me. 
 It's about all of us.

"And I know your dreams of tumbling cities and galloping horses

Of the sun coming too close 

And the night never ending."

-Leonard Cohen

"I would take more cart rides, 

contemplate more dawns,

and play with more children,

if I had another life ahead of me."

-Jorge Luis Borges

The laws are very simple.  

1. Thought is creative

2. Fear attracts like energy

3. Love is all there is.

-Neal Walsch

"I stood still, vision blurring, 

and in that moment, 

I heard my heart break. 

It was a small, clean sound, 

like the snapping of a flower’s stem."   

- Diana Galbaldan   

"I carry you with me 

into the world, 

into the smell of rain 

and the words that dance between people
and; for me, 

it will always be this way,
walking in the light,
remembering being alive together" 

— Brian Andreas 

"Your fears climb up your spine like spiders.

  How can I show you you have nothing to fear?"

-unknown

"See people come into your life for a reason. 

They might not know it yet themselves, why.  

You might not know it.  

But there is a reason.  

There has to be.

-Joyce Carol Oates

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining 

under the weight 

of all the lives I'm not living."

-Jonathan Safron Foer

"I would love to live

Like a river flows.

Carried by the surprise

Of its own unfolding."

-John O'Donohue

"I hated labels anyway.
 People didn’t fit in slots—prostitute, housewife, saint....
like sorting the mail. 
We were so mutable, 
fluid with fear and desire, 
ideals and angles, changeable as water."
-Janet Finch

"Remember, we’re madly in love, 

so it’s all right to kiss me 

anytime you feel like it." 

- Suzanne Collins

"There is nothing like

returning to a place

that remains unchanged

to which you find the ways in which

you yourself have altered."

-Nelson Madela

"You be the sun,

I'll be the moon-

just let your light come shining through;

and when night comes, just like the moon,

I'll shine the light right back to you."

-unknown

"Wittegenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful,

the hand wants to draw it.  

I wish that I could draw you."

-Nicole Kraus

"You see, you closed your eyes.

 That was the difference.

 Sometimes you cannot believe what you see,

 you have to believe what you feel. 

And if you are ever going to have other people trust you,

 you must feel that you can trust them too.

 Even when you’re in the dark. 

Even when you’re falling."

— Mitch Alborn

“I know you’re in this room, I’m sure I heard you sigh,
Floating in between 

Where our worlds collide.”
- Muse

"If I find in myself a desire

 which no experience in this world can satisfy, 

the most probable explanation is 

that I was made for another world."

-C.S. Lewis

"I cannot keep still;  I am on the edge;

the dream comes to taunt me 

in the morning sun."

-Sylvia Plath

"Feeling pain is still better 

than not feeling,

isn't it?

-Jonathan Safron Foer

"Maybe we're notes plucked from strings we cannot see.  

Maybe we're all echoes of each other.  

Maybe that sound is all you are."

-Unknown

"I had to touch you with my hands, 

I had to taste you with my tongue.  

One can't be in love and do nothing."

-Graham Greene

"Tonight we float across an empty sky

Cold air, pins and needles prick our lungs

There is something so melancholy about looking at the stars sometimes.

I turn somersaults in the wind and lose my breath.

You keep your distance; 

something about me scares you, 

so you only watch.

But here's the thing you don't realize..

we are not permanent 

and you must do more than exist

to live."

-unknown

"Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness; 

you are the sunset.  

That is the moment 

when you feel the beauty of it."

-Osho

"Maybe it isn't so much about what we do

 but about what we're capable of....

 when we least expect it."

-Jodi Picoult

"I am an excitable person 

who only understands life lyrically, musically,

 in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. 

I am so thirsty for the marvelous 

that only the marvelous has power over me."

— Anaïs Nin

"Accept who you are;

and revel in it."

-unknown

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