Category: Wisdom

From her earliest days, Nia could hear them:
the murmurs of other lives she might have lived.
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The 19th century was drunk on certainty.

Steam power, steel, calculus, colonialism – humanity, it was said, could conquer anything. Science would solve all mysteries. Mathematics would explain the universe. There was nothing, it seemed, we couldn’t measure, map, and master.

But the 20th century put an end to that illusion.

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No map marks its location, and yet many find it.
Some say the Library appears only to those who have lost something they cannot name.

It has no sign above its door, no carvings on its lintel. The stones are old and slightly warm to the touch, as though remembering sun from another world. Its wooden door opens inward, with a sigh like silk over skin.
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No one saw the Stranger arrive.

One autumn morning, as mist unspooled itself from the hills, he was simply there—seated at the dry edge of the old fountain, scribbling in a thick, weather-stained book. His boots were worn, his coat dark and plain. He neither begged nor bargained. He only watched, listened, and wrote. (more…)

No one saw the fire begin. One moment, the evening was quiet—the last rays of sun slipping like soft fingers across the square. The next, flames were climbing the roof of the Weaver’s hut, as though the sky itself had breathed down a spark.

The villagers ran at once, buckets in hand, but their efforts were small and slow against the hunger of the blaze. When at last the fire burned itself out and the embers lay cooling, the hut was gone. The great Loom—the one no one but the Weaver had ever dared to touch—was gone too. And the Weaver herself: vanished, her body never found. (more…)

Something I’ve been mulling over:

Much of our world today speaks the language of Reason—facts, logic, proofs.
It is a powerful and necessary tongue.
It has built bridges, cured diseases, carried us into the stars.

But it is not the only language we need.
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There was once a stonemason who lived at the edge of a wind-swept land where nothing stayed the same for long. The river shifted its course each season. The dunes crawled across the plain like great, lumbering beasts. Even the stars overhead seemed to shimmer with uncertainty.

The people of the land built with haste and little hope — they expected things to fall apart. And of course they did.

But Elyas, the stonemason, carved each stone with the care of one who believed it mattered. He never hurried. His walls held longer than most, but still, in time, even his finest arches cracked, even his best-laid foundations shifted.
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At dusk, as the last rays of sunlight painted the town square in gold and violet, a traveler arrived. He wore a cloak woven from mismatched fabrics, each patch a different color, and his sharp eyes glimmered with something between amusement and knowing. He carried little, save for a tall mirror framed in wood so aged it seemed as if it had always been there. (more…)

In the desert city of Lenar, there was a rope-maker named Jaya who crafted the strongest ropes in the region. Her ropes secured merchant caravans, anchored desert sails, and even hoisted the palace’s golden chandelier. But for all her skill, Jaya had one relentless enemy: the sand magpies. (more…)

Once upon a time there was a traveler journeying to a far country. One day he tripped over a green rock. “I must bring this rock with me, to remind me to never trip over another like it.”
So he put it in his knapsack. (more…)