Dhanu Shree

In The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath writes:

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in

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I firmly believe that we we seek is seeking us and the fastest way to attract what’s meant for us all is to express yourself so honestly that everything misaligned falls away on its own. The more clearly someone speaks clearly from their centre, the more easily the right people, places, and possibilities can recognise their signal.

To speak clearly is to reveal a shape, not a final form, but a felt one. This isn’t about locking into a fixed identity forever, but offering an image sharp enough that others can respond to it.

Mirror it, play with it, meet it. Let it evolve. Like a photograph in the darkroom, gradually revealing deeper colour, clearer edges, something someone can ... See more

“She had a poignantly vacant, vulnerable quality that made her a reflection of everybody’s private fantasies. Taxi could be anything you wanted her to be - a little girl, a woman, intelligent, dumb, rich, poor, anything. She was a wonderful, beautiful blank. The mystique to end all mystiques.”

In low-light conditions, cameras struggle. You either get blur , a soft, smeared image, or noise , a grainy, peppered mess. Neither is actually a true picture of what’s there, but they’re different distortions. Blur smooths over detail, while noise exaggerates uncertainty.

Sometimes, to remove noise, the software adds blur. To remove blur, it sharpe... See more

Blurriness is a soft-edged kind of confusion, which emerges when we haven’t yet found the language to name who we are. This relates to relationships, because when you can’t name yourself, it’s almost impossible for anyone else to meet you properly.

If someone can’t see us, it’s usually one of two things: sometimes, they don’t yet have the eyes to se... See more

I think true love is inseparable from selfhood. Love, at its best, sharpens who we are. But the paradox is that it often requires clarity to begin with. The more honestly and precisely you can express your interior world, the more easily the right person can find and respond to it. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, love itself becomes the very force that... See more