“There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind […]
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Nietzche on Art
We have art in order not to die of the truth. -Friedrich Nietzche
» Read More...Your Body Breathes
Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious of your own ideas of self-identity. Who, then, is breathing? The collection of information that you mistakenly think is you is not the protagonist in this drama called the breath. In fact, […]
» Read More...Herzog on Monsters
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. -Werner Herzog
» Read More...Thoreau on the Poet
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep. -Henry David Thoreau
» Read More...Sensitivity
There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind […]
» Read More...We Translate Life
We writers translate the experiences we have been given. Our task is to translate with as much empathy and integrity as we can to be true to each experience. We translate life into the narrative that we create. -Terry Tempest Williams
» Read More...Going Home Again
I was convinced you can’t go home again. Now I know better. Nothing is more untrue. I know you go back over and over again, seeking the self you left behind. -Helen Bevington
» Read More...The Magic of Language
A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by “mere” words.
» Read More...Baryshnikov on Creativity
When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life…. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage you see the result of those choices. You are […]
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