Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes: and leap!

It's time to try
Defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!

 "I want to swim away but don't know how ( Read more... )

In non-western lit, we've just started Asian literature.

I really liked these words from the Bhagavad-Gita, an ancient text which relates Hindu beliefs and philosophies of Yoga....

As a man discards shabby clothes
    for new ones
    the embodied self casts off
    tattered bodies for new ones.

Weapons don't slice it,
    fire doesn't sear it,
    waters ( Read more... )