Quote for Today: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
But illness does not always write itself upon the body, the sickness I search for is hidden deep within the brain. Sometimes it rises to the surface. Sometimes the face …
Quote for Today: Alexander Lowen
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling …
Quote for Today: Kathleen Kent
Sharing secrets is the way in which women tie themselves together, for it reveals complicity and trust. Holding secrets shows trustworthiness and a sort of quiet defiance. It is a …
Quote for Today: António Damásio
We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, …
Quote for Today: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Never have I thought so much, never have I realized my own existence so much, been so much alive, been so much myself … as in those journeys which …
Look and Listen #21: Mariusz Kędzierski’s Hyperrealistic Drawings
Polish sketch artist Mariusz Kędzierski makes beautiful, hyperrealistic portraits and images filled with exquisite detail. This would be an accomplishment for anyone, but he has done this with no arms. …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until …
Quote for Today: Stephen Fry
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I …
Quote for Today: Taisen Deshimaru
Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The …
Quote for Today: Sherman Alexie
“I don’t know if I ever told you,” my therapist said. “But I’m a birder. I love birds. And when they hit a window like that, or get hurt in …