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Rogier van Schaik
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A tree is a stranger.
Greening sweetness walking through tender habits like yours, like mine.

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“Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being, just by shimmering at the meadow's edge or floating lazily on a pond, I could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun.”

-Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer

No two people can know the sea the same way.

∆ “Memory for Forgetfulness”, Mahmoud Darwish

“Memory for Forgetfulness”, Mahmoud Dar…

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”

Louise Glück, from “Nostos” in Meadowlands.

Louise Glück

“If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.”

“I’ve never felt that it was anything other than real: discovery rather than invention, exploration rather than creation.”

octavia e. butler

People usually associate creativity with works of art, but what are works of art alongside the creative energy displayed by everyone a thousand times a day: seething unsatisfied desires, daydreams in search of a foothold in reality, feelings at once confused and luminously clear, ideas and gestures presaging nameless upheavals. All this energy, of course, is relegated to anonymity and deprived of adequate means of expression, imprisoned by survival and obliged to find outlets by sacrificing its qualitative richness and conforming to the spectacle's categories. Think of Cheval's palace, the Watts Towers, Fourier's inspired system, or the pictorial universe of Douanier Rousseau. Even more to the point, consider the incredible diversity of anyone's dreams - landscapes the brilliance of whose colors qualitatively surpass the finest canvases of a Van Gogh. Every individual is constantly building an ideal world within themselves, even as their external motions bend to the requirements of soulless routine.

∆ Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967)

Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Every…

Lavishness of language raised to the point of ecstasy

Even if you choose to do nothing, you can do it with intensity.

Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts.

Eckhart Tolle

We know this, though we forget.

— excerpt from Danusha Laméris' poem "Nothing Wants to Suffer"

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