This shaking keeps me steady....

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

"The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

When anxious,
uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea
drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with
its noise and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is
bewildered and confused.

—Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke (via yochanah)

(via darknightatsea)

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

—Eve Ensler (via wendesgray)

(Source: larmoyante, via wendesgray)