“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”

—James Baldwin

Never trust an influencer without a decent reply game

Your dream projects might be dreams because they’re not formed in dialog with the world, not because they’re good ideas

Spirituality is experiencing who you are beyond small mental definitions, rituals, relationships. For this reason it renders traditional religion impotent because religion can only reach as far as the mind can go

I love the quote from author Kent Nerburn that, “Debt defines your future, and when your future is defined, hope begins to die.

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

-H Thurman