Day 108r: And at my next End, an exhausted repose … (August 15, 2019)
On & on & on I stumbled through that night – into & through the townships of Guttenberg and West New York and Union City in turn. It was in the latter that I spontaneously decided to head more towards the Hudson River, and I did so winding along a series of little used and exceptionally quite streets; finally ending up fully exhausted on a random staircase of an apartment high-rise. There were no more steps to be taken on this day, and my head sunk to my chest there and I fell fast asleep …
“If the world seems unfair or beyond your understanding, the sublime places ever nearby suggest that it should not be surprising that things should seem thus. After all, we are the mere playthings of the far greater forces that laid out the oceans and cared the rivers and chiseled the mountains and hollowed the valleys … And so it must ever be remembered: if you want to govern the people truly, you must set your own desires ever below theirs. And if you want to lead the people well, you must choose to follow the whisperings of your Soul instead of the screams of your desires.” ~ inspired by Alain de Botton & Lao Tsu
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