The Manger of Incidentals " We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication. The horror of none of it being alive. No red squirrels, no flowers, not even weed. Nothing that knows what season it is. The stars uninflected by awareness. Miming without implication. We alone see the iris in front of the cabin reach its perfection and quickly perish. The lamb is born into happiness and is eaten for Easter. We are blessed with powerful love and it goes away. We can mourn. We live the strangeness of being momentary, and still we are exalted by being temporary. The grand Italy of meanwhile. It is the fact of being brief, being small and slight that is the source of our beauty. We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of the cosmos.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide... ELIZABETH GILBERT My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curi... ELIZABETH GILBERT Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life,... ELIZABETH GILBERT As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to ha... ELIZABETH GILBERT Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though ... ELIZABETH GILBERT For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessn... ELIZABETH GILBERT Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happi... ELIZABETH GILBERT By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can al... ELIZABETH GILBERT With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment ... ELIZABETH GILBERT every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relatio... ELIZABETH GILBERT There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice te... ELIZABETH GILBERT Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuing... ELIZABETH GILBERT I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes ... ELIZABETH GILBERT My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But... ELIZABETH GILBERT Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's alw... ELIZABETH GILBERT Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) ELIZABETH GILBERT When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don... ELIZABETH GILBERT A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live? ELIZABETH GILBERT