You talk about sex like it’s a very clear-cut thing, and it’s not… People are complicated. People are supposed to behave a certain way within social conform, social etiquette. ‘This is how we’re supposed to behave with each other.’ Then you scratch the surface and what’s the reality? How does that play out in practice? Some people might have sex in order to feel that they’re relevant, or feel that they need some sort of power from it, or—what is our relationship with sex? Here we are, talking about [the] NC-17 [rating of Shame]; is it because we’re uncomfortable with our relationship with sex? We seem to be more comfortable with our relationship with violence and killing and death, but what is it with sex? Obviously [it’s a primal instinct], but then, on top of everything else, we’ve been sold versions of sex. From as far as I can remember, how can I even know what I truly, really feel naturally attracted to? Because we are being sold things all the time.
- Michael Fassbender (via cocknbull)
(via ephemeral-)
I like to live in the sound of water, in the feel of the mountain air. A sharp reminder hits me: this world still is alive; it stretches out there shivering toward its own creation, and I’m part of it. Even my breathing enters into this elaborate give-and-take, this bowing to sun and moon, day and night, winter, summer, storm, still—this tranquil chaos that seems to be going somewhere. This wilderness with a great peacefulness in it. This motionless turmoil, this everything dance.
William Stafford (via linda-rr)
