Magnificent ruin – Lisa Marie Blair

Thoughts

Thoughts seemed to harbor great peril, but their absence even more.

When you have gone through all the layers of the self, its inmost nature, its essence, is nothing. You are nothing.”

— J. Krishnamurti, Public Talk 5, Madras (Chennai), 7 January 1978 (via Magnificent Ruin)

The horror of being seen or heard, or any other reminder of your objective existence.”

I know you by your habits; the grooves you have cut in the world; the familiar boredoms I would miss beyond all else.”

The morning paper turned out to be the main vector of infection.”

There is no more efficient way to expose your own mundanity than through writing. So be it. Perhaps the mundane has some minor value.”