Friday, March 11, 2011

Against the Grain

Butterfly that met its fate along a highway currently being widened. Wasn't quite enough for the dump truck tire though trying to make a comeback...
"Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams....'
'No one nowadays can spend their whole life traveling.'
'Not physically no, but they can on a spiritual plane. Going farther and farther, distancing yourself from your personal history and from what you were forced to become."
~Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

2 comments:

  1. Paulo Coelho is a very amazing man. Great quotes. I couldnt agree with this more. As much as I want to travel and will, stability seems nicer by the day as I get older.

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  2. And to that I would offer this quote that Paulo Coelho also wrote: ¨I get what I want, but discover that the stability I wanted is inseparable from a deep sense of tedium.¨

    How does one find balance in their life? Perhaps that is the eternal question...the one that drives us all, eventually, mad.

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