You are not part of the train. You are not a gear, or the wheels, or the piston. You are not the roof over the engineer’s head, protecting him from the weather. You are not the coal that feeds the engine, or the steam that powers it. You are not the tracks that keep it …
Time can be a liar, a joker, a magician, a fool, and a navigator. It will try to make you think that where you are is a permanent place, right before it tries to make you think again a second later. And when it has convinced you that nothing lasts, and nothing is worth keeping, …
Let us not speak these words only once a year, or once a month, or once every week, at a specified moment and place, in the presence of others. Instead, let us be reminded of them, and be caretakers of them, with every single breath that we take, beginning now. May we understand ourselves without …