Posts tagged life
“”this is why i love the artist. it’s she who stokes the fire of wonder, she who honours that part of her that longs to look beyond her own boundaries, she who reaches for the half-remembered dream, emptying herself to make room for birth with the moments of her own body
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we have trained ourselves to search for things, placing high values on shapes we can recognize, measure and understand, forgetting that everything beautiful begins invisibly, and everything brilliant is found in the direction of the unknown.
Read the whole post if you have time. There are some great thoughts in there.
“ I learned a lot of lessons that year. I learned that I have a lot less control than I want to have. I learned that people have stories to tell if you are willing to listen. I learned that sometimes all you have to offer is all the other person needs, even if it is sitting with them in silence. And I learned that hope doesn’t always come in the way we know how to look for it.”