Liya Jin
@liyajin
Liya Jin
That is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing, and no matter how much we find along the way, life amounts to a reverse savings account in which we are eventually robbed of everything. Our dreams and plans and jobs and knees... See more
Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
We create ourselves. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change
psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis wrote in his 1973 field guide to how people change
Storytelling, like ecosystems, needs diversity to thrive.
The German term Gesamtkunstwerk , roughly translates as a "total work of art" and describes an artwork, design, or creative process where different art forms are combined to create a single cohesive whole. The idea was popularized by the composer Richard Wagner who argued for the "consummate artwork of the future," where "No one rich faculty of the... See more
Gesamtkunstwerk - Modern Art Terms and Concepts
life necessitates contradictions to ever recreate itself.
When we orient so much of our lives around a certain kind of life — whatever version of that we thought we wanted — it can be startling to realize we may not actually want that anymore. It’s another life transition, another means of becoming ourselves.
Rainesford Stauffer • It’s Okay to Outgrow the Life You Thought You Wanted
My body … in constant negotiation with the bodies of the world beyond me, at the shifting edges where my skin bleeds into others
A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense. And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is to enliven the senses. A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surroundings, tuning the tongue to the actual tastes
... See more“Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing."
-Rebecca Solnit