beautiful insane in the rain

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, wiht a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. - Sal Paradise

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.

No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.