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From Silence | Tin House

A little girl standing in front of gloomed woods, her face etched away by light; an otherwise unremarkable field haunted by a delicate brume; the enchanting chaos of seedpods charmed still while falling; a child blurred limbless before a glowing, eye-white screen—the B&W photographs in Emil Handke’s series From Silence evoke an uneasy mystery, a shifting amalgam of innocence and menace. What they are, really, is uncanny, that itchy mix of the familiar and the utterly foreign.

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I think an artist, whether it’s a painter or a writer, it’s almost holy. There’s something about the vision, the wisdom. You can be a nobody, but seeing that way, it’s holy, it’s godlike. It’s above the normal life and perception of all of us, normally. You step up. And as long as you’re up there, even if you’re a terrible person – especially if you’re a terrible person – you see things that come together, and shake you, or move you, or clarify something for you that outside of your art you would not have known. It really is a vision above, or beyond.

Toni Morrison

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I am learning there are many ways to hunger—

Zayne Turner, Body Burden 

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10 Books On Ecstatically Mad Women

When I was 22, I developed an eating disorder, an experience equal parts horror and euphoria that took me outside of myself, turning me into someone I wasn’t, or perhaps revealing a part of me that…

"When the soul feels the heat of divine love, it cries out and moans. It is like a stone flung in the forge to melt into lime; it crackles when it is licked by the flames, but after it is baked makes not a sound." - Angelina of Foligno

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A psychological perspective is inherently self-aware, self-conscious—and therefore tending to look inwardly at least in part. A “spiritual/contemplative” one, to use your term, has a reverse gaze—outward—and, more to the point, is characterized by an opposite aim: to quell the ego.

Yann Martel

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Happy maps

Mapping apps help us find the fastest route to where we’re going. But what if we’d rather wander? Researcher Daniele Quercia demos “happy maps” that take into account not only the route you want to take, but how you want to feel along the way.

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Where is home?

"Home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself."

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"To make a collection is to find, acquire, organize and store items, whether in a room, a house, a library, a museum or a warehouse. It is also, inevitably, a way of thinking about the world.”

–Hans Ulrich Obrist on Collecting Knowledge

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Recalculating: The Mind and the Map

"I’m now trying to think of all my wrong turns as material for the part of my brain that badly wants to build me a map, to locate me in the world. If it takes a little longer to get where I’m going, at least I’ll have taken the scenic route and heard the birdsong."

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"I’m such a good girl to eat the world."

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A Nonbeliever Tries To Make Sense Of The Visions She Had As A Teen

Barbara Ehrenreich — a rationalist, atheist and scientist by training — has written a new memoir called Living With a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything.

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"But of course, like a novel, a map can only ever be a model and reduction of reality."

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"mislabeled, misfiled, miscataloged, misidentified, unidentified"

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For a time, one of James Merrill’s methods of inspiration was derived from the use of a Ouija board. The above Ouija transcription page is from the summer of 1976 and is reworked in Mirabell 2.2.

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"Spirituality, described as the art of homecoming..."

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Having it Out with Melancholy

"Like a crow who smells hot blood

you came flying to pull me out

of the glowing stream.

"I'll hold you up. I never let my dear

ones drown!" After that, I wept for days." - Jane Kenyon

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A girl’s gotta eat And your hunger’s not even your own

- Heather Christle