<n>5 Ways to Practice Tree Listening</n> for <n>Atmos</n>. Photo by <n>Lena Aires</n>, design by <n>tessa forrest</n>.

Okay

Greatness is consistency.

Meditating once is common. Meditating daily is rare.

Exercising today is simple. Training every week is simply remarkable.

Writing one essay doesn’t mean much. Writing every day practically makes you a hero.

Unheroic days can make for heroic decades.

 Our modern obsession with personal branding and self-commodification wants us to flatten ourselves into something someone else can understand in five seconds, but that’s just not how people are, and it seems cruel to deem anyone so simple, least of all ourselves.

Album art for the song <n>Disciplined Flow Surrender</n> by musician <n>Sheschupek</n>.

Your current habits are a sneak peak of your desired future.

An 1889 quote from <n>Vincent van Gogh</n> to his brother <n>Theo van Gogh</n>, drawn by <n>Katie Benn</n>.

Digital illustration by <n>Mathis Popelsky</n>, 2020.

Ancient Ritual

Poem <n>I HOPE THIS EMAIL FINDS YOU</n> by <n>bella townsend</n>, after <n>Skyler Saunders</n>.

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

–Joseph Campbell