She’s like smoke: you think you’re seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her there’s nothing there. Ryū Murakami (via larmoyante)

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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Alan Watts  (via idterab)

It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible. Libba Bray (via hellanne)