the human condition

<n>The Different Ways You Abandon Yourself</n> by <n>Molly Burford</n> via <n>Thought Catalog</n>.

An excerpt from an <n>Ask Polly letter</n> by <n>Heather Havrilesky</n>, published in <n>The Awl</n>.

<n>Leslie Cheung</n> and <n>Rowena Cortes</n> in <n>Clifford Choi</n>'s 1982 film <n>Teenage Dreamers</n>.

It’s a tragedy that life is taken so seriously. This is a result in the belief that we are limited, we are in danger, and that consciousness comes to an end.

You are the open field of Awareness. Thoughts and beliefs of being limited are just that - fleeting things…

A still from the 1961 film <n>Chronicle of a Summer</n>, co-directed by <n>Jean Rouch</n> and <n>Edgar Morin</n>.

If AI ever allows us to understand ourselves truly, it will not be because these algorithms captured the mechanical essence of the human mind. It will be because they liberated us to forget about optimization and to instead focus on what truly makes us human: loving and being loved.
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee

A scene from <n>Ang Lee</n>'s 2012 film <n>Life of Pi</n> featuring actor <n>Irrfan Khan</n>.

A still of musician <n>Kendrick Lamar</n>.

Artist <n>Henry Moore</n> with his sculpture <n>King and Queen</n> (1952). Photo by <n>Keystone Press</n>.

A still from the 1985 film <n>Ran</n>, directed by <n>Akira Kurosawa</n>.

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” —Teilhard de Chagrin

On Self Respect — Are.na

“I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories, and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights.”


— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. March 1904

Obligations — Are.na

Anaïs Nin, The Novel of the Future — Are.na

"The journey is to go from Somebody to Nobody."

Learn to laugh at the mental warfare you play with yourself. Before a long run, everything hurts. Before a big meeting, nothing is ready. Before a big launch, it's not the right time. This is the only fight that matters. Once you see it for what it is, you realize it's just a game. Then, you can finally start playing.

A quote by <n>Austin Kleon</n> from his book <n>Steal Like an Artist</n>.

## *“ Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again ”*

–Joseph Campbell

A quote from <n>Albert Camus</n>'s '<n>Notebooks, 1951-1959</n>'.