réka
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writer & generally curious person. moss enthusiast
réka
Knowledge is power; self-knowledge is an elixir.
Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. We suffer anyway as human beings. Don’t make it any harder on yourself.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
I know most of my writing friends are obsessed with writing. It works in the same way as chocolate does. We’re always thinking we should be writing no matter what else we might be doing. It’s not fun. The life of an artist isn’t easy. You’re never free unless you are doing your art.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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by David Whyte
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,
who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,
you come to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lea... See more
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
We’re not the first cohort to experience a crisis. To experience the passing of time. And by passing of time, I mean the dawning realisation that time is finite, and we might have already wasted a lot. We used to have time to burn. But it was a late blooming into misery.
While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for Mil... See more
While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for Mil... See more
Bride Jabour • ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy
what do I need right now? what do I need in this moment?