vos anniversaires ~

But you know if you talk all the time you will never hear what anybody else has to say, and therefore, all you'll have to talk about is your own conversation. The same is true for people who think all the time. That means, when I use the word, "think", talking to yourself, sub-vocal conversation, the constant chit-chat of symbols and images and talk and words inside your skull. Now, if you do that all the time you'll find that you've nothing to think about except thinking. And just as you have to stop talking to hear what others have to say, you have to stop thinking to find out what life is about. And the moment you stop thinking you'd come into immediate contact with what Korzybski called, so delightfully, "The unspeakable world". The most ordinary sights and sounds and smells. The texture of shadows on the floor in front of you. All these things, without being named and saying, "That's a shadow, that's red, that's brown, that's somebody's foot". When you don't name things any longer, you start seeing them. Alan Watts. ☾☾

it wouldn't be worth it if it wasn't this hard, there wouldn't be starlight if it didn't get dark but it's all good until we're lonely with our love