I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to try to remain conscious of all that was going on around me at all times.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of mindfulness and awareness in our daily lives.
In this quote, Anne Rice expresses a commitment to living more consciously and attentively. By advocating for a slower pace and greater observation, the quote invites individuals to appreciate their surroundings and be fully present in the moment, suggesting that doing so can lead to a deeper understanding of life and oneself.
In practice
During a meditation workshop, this quote can be shared to inspire participants to be more mindful.
From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart.
We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.
And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.
Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.
The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.
Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.
In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.
It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.
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