There are a lot of words when it comes to identifying what exactly about a piece of art made you feel seen, heard, known. They’re all slightly different. Authentic is what came naturally. Real is early morning lighting where you can see all of your pores. Vulnerable is a little too close to the bone for the person putting it out, sink or swim, reve... See more
For each soul is such a jewel, which when clear, will reveal all the other souls in existence as well as the net of being that connects us.
Mark Nepo • Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression
Our ‘ego’ or self-conception could be pictured as a leaking balloon, forever requiring the helium of external love to remain inflated and vulnerable to the smallest pinpricks of neglect. There is something sobering and absurd in the extent to which we are cheered by attention and damaged by disregard.
Alain de Botton • Status Anxiety (NON-FICTION)
The Picture of Dorian Gray, “If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.” Our trembling little human lives and emo
... See moreCarolyn Elliott • Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power (A method for getting what you want by getting off on what you don't)
