De nombres raros y apellidos comunes, mexicana, nacida bajo el signo de capricornio, constructora y destructora de mi vida, melómano, obsesiva y a veces hasta metódica. Idealista y sin ideas.
“Temes a la imaginación. Y a los sueños más aún. Temes a la responsabilidad que puede derivarse de ellos. Pero no puedes evitar dormir. Y si duermes, sueñas. Cuando estás despierto, puedes refrenar, más o menos, la imaginación. Pero los sueños no hay manera de controlarlos.”
“[Spiritual] Work consists in subjecting oneself voluntarily to temporary suffering in order to be free from eternal suffering. But people are afraid of suffering. They want pleasure now, at once, and for forever. They do not want to understand that pleasure is an attribute of paradise and that it must be earned. This is necessary not by reason of any arbitrary or inner moral law but because if man gets pleasure before he has earned it, he will not be able to keep it and pleasure will be turned into suffering.
The whole point is to be able to get pleasure and be able to keep it. Whoever can do this has nothing to learn. But the way to it lies through suffering. Whoever thinks that as he is he can avail himself of pleasure is much mistaken, and if he is capable of being sincere with himself, then the moment will come when he will see this.”
“It occurs to me:
The weight of the heartbreaks we carry
is the only aging force there really is.
It’s why we meet some people in their nineties
whose spirits are lighter than eiderdown
and some twenty-somethings
who already seem old,
like they’re carrying inhabited dungeons
of banished travelers on the inside.”
— Frank LaRue Owen, from “Quantum Travel,” The School of Soft-Attention (Homebound Publications, 2018)
