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The emotional aesthetic of Alan Wake 2

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do you look into the mirror to remind yourself you're there?

Or have somebody's goodnight kisses got that covered?

https://youtu.be/XzwF8urswkk?is=-wCdl4AZLsCw42oL

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When you forgive others they may not notice but you will heal. Forgiveness is not something we do for others; it is a gift to ourselves. -Kevin Kelly

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The majestic scenery in Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits -Emily Dickinson

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It goes like this: me thinking, “What’s it all for?/ What’s the bloody point?/ I haven’t done anything I like and I don’t have a clue what to do next/ I’m a completely empty shell.”

This lasts two days or so… Then I suddenly notice — apropos of something very minor, like the way a plane crosses the sky, or the smell of trees, or the light in the early evening, or remembering one of my brother’s jokes — that I am thoroughly enjoying myself and completely, utterly glad to be alive. Not one of the questions I asked myself has been answered. Instead, like all good philosophical questions, they’ve just ceased to matter.

-Brian Eno

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Brunnhilde

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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and it’s always with us.

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We can be with what’s happening and not dissociate.

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The nostalgic beauty of Eastward

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Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don’t get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It’s a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

To stay with that shakiness — to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge — that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic — this is the spiritual path. Getting the knack of catching ourselves, of gently and compassionately catching ourselves, is the path of the warrior

-Pema Chödrön

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The unique aesthetic of A Juggler's Tale

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While every human life makes its own singular meaning in the act of living, beneath it course the same core hopes and fears, the same shy yearnings and screaming passions — we are all always learning the same lessons, in different guises and through different teachers.

-Maria Popova

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A study of a stylish pug

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When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity — in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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A still life study with color pencils.

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You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing. -John Gardner

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Landscape study with ballpoint pen