"There’s a line by the Italian writer Carlo Levi that I think is apt here: 'The future has an ancient heart.' I love it because it expresses with such grace and economy what is certainly true—that who we become is born of who we most primitively are; that we both know and cannot possibly know what it is we’ve yet to make manifest in our lives. I think it’s a useful sentiment for you to reflect upon now, sweet peas, at this moment when the future likely feels the opposite of ancient, when instead it feels like a Lamborghini that’s pulled up to the curb while every voice around demands you get in and drive.
-Sugar
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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have you ever read anything by ekhart tolle (eek, spelling?). he talks about how humans are the only species that questions what we're meant to be--an acorn knows its meant to grow to an oak. i hope before long i fure out what my version of oak is. the future has an ancient heart indeed.
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