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We are a landscape of all we have seen. —Isamu Noguchi

The <n>Pale Blue Dot</n> photograph of Earth, taken in 1990. Quote by <n>Carl Sagan</n>. Credit <n>NASA</n>/<n>JPL-Caltech</n>.

I love listening. It is one of the only spaces where you can be still and moved at the same time.

— Nayyirah Waheed

A still from <n>Jean-Luc Godard</n>'s 1962 film, <n>Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux</n>.

<n>All That Wanting, Right?</n>, a poem by <n>Devin Kelly</n> published in <n>HAD</n> in 2022.

Quote by <n>Audre Lorde</n> from her book <n>Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches</n>.

If we are constantly performing the self to the ubiquitous and persistent audiences that social media platforms provide, then interiority is no longer central to selfhood and no longer assumed in the same way. Instead, our performances establish ourselves for others, and how those performances are received conveys a sense of selfhood back to us.

"For me, success is not a public thing. It’s a private thing. It’s when you have fewer and fewer regrets." — Toni Morrison

<n>Olivia Colman</n> and <n>Olivia Williams</n> in the <n>National Theatre</n> production of <n>Mosquitoes</n>.

<n>Another Year of Growth Greeting Card</n> illustrated by <n>Lauren Wilson</n> for <n>Red Cap Cards</n>.

“We are all floating in a tremendous river and the river carries you along. Some of the people in the river are swimming against the current, but they are still being carried along. Others have learned that the art of the thing is to swim with it. You have to flow with the river. There is no other way. You can swim against it, and pretend not to be flowing with it. But you still flow with the river.” — Alan Watts

it takes momentum to return home to yourself

A page from <n>Osho</n>'s book, '<n>The Book of Secrets</n>.' Photo by <n>Isha Khanna</n>.

be confident in the depth of your curiosity not in the depth of your expertise

A quote from film director <n>Stanley Kubrick</n>.

A basic tenet of somatics holds true for better or worse:  we become what we practice and we’re always practicing something.

A scene from <n>Disney</n>'s 1951 film <n>Alice in Wonderland</n> featuring the character <n>Alice</n>.

instead of chasing our egos,  we need to slow down and follow ourselves back to our origin.  and sit. for a long time.

In solitude, we learn to allow things to grow slowly and gently. To feel cradled in the quiet; to feel whole as you are. Marilynne Robinson once said, “I grew up with the confidence that the greatest privilege was to be alone and have all the time you wanted. That is the cream of existence.”