gisela’s most recent Quotables

To love another is something
like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third
Were axioms to him, who'd never heard
Of any world where promises were kept,
Or one could weep because another wept.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. And yet it is innate in human nature to try to go home again, and it may in fact be what life is all about: getting back to home, back to death, and then out of death and back to life.

The most beautiful people we have know are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep, loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Acceptance when it comes, arrives in waves. Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favouring one direction over another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That’s how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The call of meaning is unlike any other, and we would do well to spend more time together listening for the deep wells of purpose that nourish all of us.