when björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw… oh how right she was
when björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw… oh how right she was
A person can’t be contained in your ideas about them. This was a core idea for us. To whatever extent I assumed I knew who Johanna was, I treated her as something that I could fit in my head — as something smaller than me. But she couldn’t fit in my head, nor I in hers: that was the exciting thing about it. You can only ever know another individual... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meet
“Well, we use words to communicate, right? Still, most of our words don’t actually get across. You know what I mean? Well, our words might, but not what we’re actually trying to say. That’s what we’re always dealing with. We live in this place, in this world, where we can share our words but not our thoughts.
Mieko Kawakami • Breasts and Eggs
For most artists, words are like tiny tranquilizers. We have a daily quota of media chat that we swallow up. Like greasy food, it clogs our system. Too much of it and we feel, yes, fried.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
Sometimes reluctant truths and introverted speakers only emerge in the sacred pauses.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
There is in fact a connection between 1) listening in the Deep Listening, bodily sense, and 2) listening, as in me understanding your perspective.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
When we speak, we take in the atmosphere and expel it again; we ingest the world and make it resonate. By speaking, we partake in the world, and the world partakes of us. This is true, also, of other forms of speech: the cry of birds, the scratching of crickets, the wind in the trees, the rumble of stone. Speech exists between bodies and beings; it
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