Annika Bansal
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Annika Bansal
Carl Sagan - Cosmos- Stars - We Are Their Children
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I heard of an exercise used in a writing workshop that involved imagining a photograph so personal that we couldn’t show it to anyone. What would it be? That’s the level of exposure we’re aiming for.
DBC Pierre • Release the Bats: Writing Your Way Out Of It
In the post-hipster era, you listened to what Spotify told you to listen to. If you read a book, it was because the precise pattern of blobby pastel-coloured shapes on its cover contained coded instructions to TikTok’s algorithm that sent it zooming to the top of your feed. Your tastes and preferences were decided for you by vast crystalline machin... See more
Sam Kriss • All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge
What we call happiness or ecstasy is, to me, creative thinking. And creative thinking is the infinite movement of thought, emotion, and action. That is, when thought, which is emotion, which is action itself, is unimpeded in its movement, is not compelled or influenced or bound by an idea, and does not proceed from the background of tradition or ha... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Real beauty has all kinds of deep shadows, it is not just bright flickers of color. Go and look at a Rodin sculpture and you will feel the gravity of beauty.
Andrew Sweeny • Beauty
“As for me, seeker after truth and student of life as I am… I take from life the movements I observe, but it is not I who impose them. Even when a subject which I’m working on compels me to ask a model for a certain fixed pose, I indicate it to him, but I carefully avoid touching him to place him in the position, for I will reproduce only what reality spontaneously offers me. I obey Nature in everything, and I never pretend to command her. My only ambition is to be servilely faithful to her.” (Gsell, p. 11).
Indian village midwives make a shocking confession - BBC World Service Documentaries
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