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Dorothy Ashby
Mary Delany, Sea daffodil (1778)
“It would be many years before I discovered that what I needed to know was not to be found in some singular and extreme act of bravery or brilliance, but in the small repeated act of coming back to the present moment.”
— Eckhart Tolle
I know you've got some hot nudes you've been dying to post haha
self-compassion: an antidote to shame mb
“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made.. And they won’t even admit the knife is there”
Malcolm X
The fear of how you are seen, the fear of what you are, is solved by accepting it all the way: you are seen in all possible ways at all times, which means you really are all possible beings at all times.
Brook Ziporyn, Emptiness and Omnipresence: An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism
The Spitfire | Shakira for Vanity Fair, November 2001
photographed by david lachapelle
PBS just set up a youtube channel where you can watch full documentaries!!
https://m.youtube.com/@pbsdocumentaries
Welcome to the PBS Documentaries channel—presented by PBS Digital Studios and Independent Television Service (ITVS), dedicated to documentin
^ live link to their channel! looks like it's been live since 2012, and has 213 videos plus tons of playlists
NFB (National Film Board of Canada//ONF in french) is also a great place to find free documentaries + lots of animation movies. Their youtube channel is here but they also have a website thats wayyy easier to use. They even have an app!
Watch quality Canadian documentary, animation and fiction films online
Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Khumalo street where accident happened. South Africa, Johannesburg, Thokoza, 2023
Edvard Munch, "The Bite", 1914.
“Animals are Deep Listeners. When you enter an environment where there are birds, insects or animals, they are listening to you completely. You are received. Your presence may be the difference between life and death for the creatures of the environment. Listening is survival!
Humans have ideas. Ideas drive consciousness forward to new perceptions and perspectives. Sounds carry intelligence. Ideas, feelings and memories are triggered by sounds. If you are too narrow in your awareness of sounds, you are likely to be disconnected from your environment. More often than not, urban living causes narrow focus and disconnection. Too much information is coming into the auditory cortex, or habit has narrowed listening to only what seems of value and concern to the listener. All else is tuned out or discarded as garbage.
Compassion (spiritual development) and understanding comes from listening impartially to the whole space/time continuum of sound, not just what one is presently concerned about. In this way, discovery and exploration can take place. New fields of thought can be opened and the individual may be expanded and find opportunity to connect in new ways to communities of interest. Practice enhances openness.”
Pauline Oliveros, 2003
Only when you stop running can you get the fulfillment and happiness you have been looking for. A wave doesn't have to go and look for water. It is water right in the here and now. A cedar tree doesn't have any desire to be a pine or a cypress or even a bird.
It's a wonderful manifestation of the cosmos just as it is. You are the manifestation of the cosmos. You are wonderful just like that.
- THICH NHAT HANH
STEREOLAB | Cobra and phases group play voltage in the milky light
Something I always found quite funny/endearing about my mum is she's the type of person who, when confronted with a house with building floor to ceiling windows will say "imagine having to clean them".
I find myself reflecting on this when, having to explain to my partner that if he doesn't prune the inside of his tree in his garden, it will continue to grow up and up and it adds to its apical dominance making it a real pain to manage in the future. Idk I like to notice this kind of practicality from my mum being handed down to me.