“Life isn’t ‘about’ air raids, swamis, love affairs, places, deeds done or undone — those are only the shapes of the letters in which the message is written. To read the message, that’s all that matters. But how? By being very alert, very still. By holding your breath and listening, always, everywhere, in the midst of this earsplitting uproar.”
— Christopher Isherwood’s diary, Sept. 20, 1944
There is power in standing still when everything else is in motion. In choosing silence not out of defeat, but out of clarity. I don’t need to explain my stillness, or prove my strength through noise. The sea can roar all it likes - I have already made peace with the parts of me it cannot reach.
ReplyDelete— James McInerney