#bse

It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You're interested in relics -- guitar picks, set lists, the sweaty napkin applied to His brow. You set up shrines in your room. It's not just about the music. It's about who you are when you listen to the music and who you wish to be and the way a particular song can bridge that gap, can make you feel the abrupt thrill of absolute faith. ↗

— Steve Almond

#music #music-obsession #faith

Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#life

Theere is an imperative to be in a process, the energy & consciousness of life means for us to be constantly observing, learning & becoming. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#consciousness #energy #imperative-for-life #learn #observe

But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven's sake, I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. The scientist dropping into the zoo at feeding time. That is what I told myself. ↗

— Elaine Dundy

#life

love keeps you up at night, fills your mind at school, and obsesses with your soul. ↗

— Jeanie Wilding

#mind #obsession #soul-mates #love

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#obsession #love

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#obsession #love

I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#obsession #love

I will be with her again, or I will die. There aren’t any other options ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#love #meghan-chase #obsession #the-iron-fey #love

From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #obsession #love