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This contemplation and collaboration was an incredibly new extension of how I’ve been thinking about work lately. It probably exists in the space my friend Yatú would call “concept composing”. Really working through the forms of language and articulation to reach a shared embodiment.

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Reggie James • Architecture Work: Gloria in the Wilderness

“Let the young soul survey its own life with a view to the following question: ‘What have you truly loved thus far?5 What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?’ Assemble these revered objects in a row before you and perhaps they will reveal a law by their nature and their order: the fundamental law of yo

David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

What’s clarifying is that I do believe every person is important. That means working on a human scale matters. Things don’t feel small and petty if you really believe every life is precious and fully linked to all life on Earth. I may not be religious, but I hold community as sacred all the same.

Cultivating Non-Romantic Intimacy

There is something at the heart of being – something that is the heart of being – that responds to us as persons, and teaches us to ask questions. We are here because someone wanted us to be.

Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility

To live as an artist is a way of being in the world. A way of perceiving. A practice of paying attention. Refining our sensitivity to tune in to the more subtle notes. Looking for what draws us in and what pushes us away. Noticing what feeling tones arise and where they lead.

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

An identity doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s a lived experience in homes, schools, neighborhoods, families, congregations and relationships. This is where purpose resides, in the intention of our identity. Once we discover our authentic self, how do we live from it?

Drew Moser • The Enneagram of Discernment: The Way of Vocation, Wisdom, and Practice

To dislodge us from our silence, we can think of ourselves as each possessing two different kinds of identities. Our local identity comprises our age, gender, skin colour, sexuality, social background, wealth, career, religion and personality type. But beyond this, we also have a universal identity, made up of what we have in common with every othe

Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education

On being dedicated to art as a daily practice

thecreativeindependent.com

A mushroom is a toxin-transformer, a dandelion is a community of healers waiting to spread… What are we as humans, what is our function in the universe?