sandyFeb 21, 2023
Maria Popova

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

Anaïs Nin, born 120 years ago today, on how to be un-dead
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/02/anais-nin-d-h-lawrence/

How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

The Marginalian
Feb 21, 2023 at 4:07pmWeb
Show threadJoeLamportFeb 21, 2023

@mariapopova

The power of purely becoming ... with all due respect to Anais Nin, no one expresses this better than a flower!

https://lampoetry.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-power-of-becoming.html

The Power of Purely Becoming

What Hamlet saw In the fall of a sparrow I see much more clearly In the upward thrust Of the amaryllis flower Which must now be ...