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some familiar stranger

“ Mamihlapinatapei (n): It is that look across the table when two people are sharing an unspoken but private moment. When each knows the other understands and is in agreement with what is being expressed. An expressive and meaningful silence. ”

—   Telegraph

Strangers to Reason: LIFE Inside a Psychiatric Hospital, 1938

self

“ Often when I imagine you
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer
and I am dark, I am forest. ”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours I, 45 (via pederost)

(via pederost)

those love birds let them go,
those love trees let them grow,
life, my friend, is a river —
let it flow.

quiet wandering in spring