in other words
everything i make is a diary entry… it is my experience of life. everything we make can be that, can be a personal reflection of who we are in that moment of time.
rick rubin
every medium is journalistic; every act of creation is an expression of experience, emotion, or desire : past, present, or future.
have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its beginning, middle, and end, with its transcendent end, let go, we are the poem, we have come miles of life, we have survived this far to tell you, go on, go on.
you will see you have an underlying tone and plot to your life undernearth the one you’ve been told. circular and image bound. something near tragic, near unbearable, but contained by your irreducible imagination – who would have thought of it but you – your ability to metamorphose like organic material in contact with changing elements. the rocks. they carry the chronology of water. all things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.
lidia yuknavitch, the chronology of water
what matters to her ... is to seize this time that comprises her life on earth at a given period, the time that has coursed through her, the world she has recorded merely by living.
anne ernaux
the wave does not have to die to become water. she is already water.
thich nhat hanh
i think there’s an entire, yet-to-be-written female language… it’s about someone self-heimliching and contextualizing why that person has swallowed their own voice their whole life.
kristen stewart
caretake this moment. immerse yourself in its particulars. respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. quit evasions. stop giving yourself needless trouble. it is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. you are not some disinterested bystander. participate. exert yourself.
epictetus
it goes without saying, i believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less. but the barrier between oneself andone’s knowledge of oneself is high indeed. there are so many things one would rather not know!
james baldwim
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