“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.”

- Brian Eno

“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.”

― David Shields, Reality Hunger

People change in four seasons: when they hurt enough they have to, when they see enough they are inspired to, when they learn enough that they want to, and when they receive enough that they are able to

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Poet Mary Oliver on allowing yourself to be happy and full: "If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. ...whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb."

“I know that talent doesn’t feel like you’re amazing. It feels like the difficulties that trouble others are mysteriously absent in your case. Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at.” Sasha Chapin

I don’t believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

– Gloria Naylor

from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."

Stubbornness can be a vice masquerading as virtue’s white knight