Louise Glück - A Travel Diary

Do not be sad, he said. You have begun your own journey,

not into the world, like your friend’s, but into yourself and your memories.

As they fall away, perhaps you will attain

that enviable emptiness into which

all things flow, like the empty cup in the Daodejing–

Everything is change, he said, and everything is connected.

Also everything returns, but what returns is not what went away

— Louise Glück - A Travel Diary (Winter Recipes from the Collective)