Heather

“We tend to be blind to the unconscious ways we create opposition between ourselves and others. In that blindness, we point to the 50 per cent we think is their fault and they point to the 50 per cent they think is our fault“

“It’s likely that we felt most loved in our life when we felt our experience was being fully recognised, and that the other person was fully present, as if accompanying us on the journey. Those of us who rarely experienced this as children may not feel naturally attuned to ourselves or even others.“

Served a curated diet of entertainment and news through our devices that indulges our personal preferences, our need to have the world the way we want it, as opposed to the way the world actually is, only strengthens.

“History is what hurts. It is what refuses desire and sets the inexorable limits to individual as well as collective praxis.”

When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.