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“I don’t like the term ‘success.’ It implies finality that has always felt misleading. We all live many lives, the experience of each compounding on the next. The attachment to a singular end-state defined by a milestone in a career seriously misses greater existential truths for me that are more interested in experimentation, iteration, and circularity.” — Ara Katz

A diagram illustrating psychiatrist <n>Carl Gustav Jung</n>'s model of the human psyche.

"Everything is change, he said, and everything is connected. Also everything returns, but what returns is not what went away." — Louise Glück, The Denial of Death

<n>You Are A Channel</n> graphic by <n>BY.J STUDIOS</n>.

“Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It’s about realizing that there are no problems. Only situations — to be dealt with now, or to be left alone and accepted as parts of the “isness” of the present moment until they change or can be dealt with. Problems are mind-made and need time to survive. They cannot survive in the actuality of the Now.”

Film director <n>Krzysztof Kieślowski</n> in Paris, 1992.

Meme featuring text by <n>Israa Nasir</n>.

A quote on authenticity by author <n>Karin Hadadan</n>.

“I am finding my way back to myself again. Slowly, patiently, intricately. I am finding roads in between my heart and my mind that connect. I am finding melodies that taste good on my soul. I stray and I take detours occasionally, but I am finding my way back to myself again.”

A still from the 1965 film <n>Alphaville</n> by director <n>Jean-Luc Godard</n>.

*"Death is more universal than life… Everyone dies, but not everyone lives."*

Sensei Yamada
(The Way of the Warrior)

Quote by writer <n>Alnoor Ladha</n>. Graphic by <n>advaya</n>.

We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the music of the cosmos, we are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments, and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.

“Most of us walk without chains, yet we aren't free. We're tethered to regret and sorrow from the past.
We return to the past and continue to suffer. The past is a prison. But now you have the key to unlock the door and arrive in the present moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Film still from <n>I'm Thinking of Ending Things</n> (2020), directed by <n>Charlie Kaufman</n>.