I am,therefore,I am

"I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come."


— Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children)

Extraordinary!

“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”


--Anais Nin

Waka

Though I go to you
ceaselessly along dream paths,
the sum of those trysts
is less than a single glimpse
granted in the waking world.


--Ono No Komachi

Ono no Komachi

though I go to you ceaselessly
along dream paths
the sum of those trysts is
less than a single glimse
granted in the waking world

-Ono no Komachi