Devotion is a River

The strange presence of absent beings - Annie Ernaux, The Years

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing that bones are moving easily under the flesh. — Dorris Lessing

When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back - Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be. No instantaneous miracle is suddenly going to occur and make you brave and courageous and true.” - Audre Lorde

This is what is happening right now. This is the best thing I can do. — Brad Stulberg

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. — Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

The things of this world

exist, they are;

you can't refuse them.

To bear and not to own;

to act and not lay claim;

to do the work and let it go

is what makes it stay.

— Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

Gift yourself the gift of faith. Know that you are in the right track. You are — Julia Cameron

‘Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?’

— Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. — Robert Louis Stevenson

“I read a lot. I listen a lot. I think a lot. But so little remains. The books I read, their plots, their protagonists fade… Names of people, books, cities. They are already fading away. Even the titles of films I’ve seen recently...they have already faded… Everything that I see, or read, or listen to, connects, translates into moods, bits of surroundings, colors… With me, everything is mood, mood, or else...simply nothingness.” — Jonas Mekas

Giorgio Armani // "Detail is essential . . . it is often the minutia that makes the difference, not the great idea as those are rare”

Ask yourself, what are you seeing everywhere? This is perhaps the clearest reflection of your identity” — Benjamin Hardy

That, I think, is the power of ceremony: it marries the mundane to the sacred.

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

Olafur Eliasson