16 Quotes by Easterine Kire

Remember that kindness and cruelty cannot live together. One will always have to give way to the other.

No one is completely bad and even if they do bad things, there is still some vestige of goodness in them which can be brought out. But if you leave it too late, it gets so polluted that it feels like it’s too much of an effort. That is what makes them remain where they are.

No, I’m talking about the famine of stories and songs. They killed all the storytellers who tried to tell them about the Son of the Thundercloud. They killed hope.

Because the people sought to be free whenever they heard the stories. Free of fear, free of shame and constant desire. Without the stories, people believed they were destined to suffer, and they allowed the dark ones to enslave their minds and fill them with fear and sorrow and despair until they died.

Words were so important. The wrong words pronounced over a person would destroy him. The right words spoken judiciously would lead a person to fulfil his destiny.

This is what comes after a spirit encounter. The flesh trembles even while the spirit is triumphant, because the flesh cannot understand that you have won the battle, and it struggles with its own memories of fear.

This is our home, do you understand? We cannot abandon it and try to live in another place. Our umbilical cods are buried here, and we would always be restless if we tried to settle elsewhere.

How long had he been away? A month? Six weeks? And so much had happened to him in that time. So many deaths too – as if there were some sort of sudden cosmic disequilibrium that needed to be rectified by claiming innocent lives.

Perhaps the answer lay not in striving but in being. In simply accepting that the loneliness would never be eliminated fully, but that one could deal with it by learning to treat it like a companion and no longer an adversary.