Always Quote by Saskia de Brauw

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in…

— Pascal Mercier

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply…

— Dinaw Mengestu

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…but, there are times…

— James Carroll

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

— Marcus Aurelius

The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform…

— Michel de Certeau

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath…

— Debbie Ford

We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to…

— Thomas Keating

“We clutter the earth with our inventions, never dreaming that possibly they are unnecessary — or disadvantageous. We devise astounding means of communication, but…

— Henry Miller

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

— Karen Armstrong

By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.

— Patrick Califia

“We approach our lives on different trajectories, each of us spinning in our own separate, shining orbits. What gives this life its resonance is…

— Richard Wagamese

The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That…

— Philippe Petit