André du Toit

Sometimes it is hard not to despair at events in this world, but this should only further our resolution to create spaces of beauty, wonder & compassion all the more. May we create deeper connection & community for change. (Art by Carl Larsson)

Healing is a choice. It is not an easy one because it takes work to turn around your habits. But keep making the choice and shifts will happen. Yehuda Berg Juan Brufal

"Finding beauty in the light, and enigma in the shadows, creates a beautiful interplay of light and shadow that shapes spaces and objects, elevating them to a metaphysical level." Aiart by Kaoru Yamada

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life. Khalil Gibran

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center. — David Lynch

"Let us ... repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life." ~ Virginia Woolf Open Window at Collioure 🎨 Henri Matisse (1905)

That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet —Emily Dickinson

Kaoru Yamada Offline is the new luxury

Don’t forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell. Unknown Juan Brufal

"I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living', I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds." —Jack Kerouac

"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals." — Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.” — Carl Jung

“If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.” ― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow Photo Credit to - Morten Lasskogen

“There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.” ― Kenneth Grahame, Wind in the Willows Millard Owen Sheets (1907-1989) “Early Morning, Near Hong Kong”, 1980

"You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found." Kid Cudi Kaoru Yamada aiart

“Living in a world like this, turned upside down, requires not only enormous courage; it demands, above all, inexhaustible patience and unwavering lucidity.” José Eduardo Agualusa

Juan Brufal Digital art

“The bars on our cage are of our own making.” ― Jessie Burton Richard Schmid

"If there is no wind, row." Latin Proverb

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855.