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墨香铜臭, Heaven Official's Blessing // Tina Tran, "Until I started choking on our memories" // Rykarda Parasol // Richard Siken, "Saying Your Names" // Bluepoch Games, Reverse 1999 // Trebbe Johnson, Fierce Consciousness: Surviving the Sorrows of Earth and Self // Marina Tsvetaeva, "Poem of the End" (trans. Elaine Feinstein) // Boyish—Japanese Breakfast // @catradoraism // Richard Siken, "Planet of Love"

[Requested by @wispy-wallfish]

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passenger seat photo beaded curtain by noorann matties

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Jianhao Chen's "David"

Wonder Festival 2020 Shanghai

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The heavens wept as you plummeted afar.

Once bathed in radiance, now veiled in shame.

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"How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be." ~ Elizabeth Lesser

Mercy by Chris Mars 2019

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"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?" ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Hope by Anna Surgan

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Rebecca Leveille-Guay

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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose. —Rollo May

Famine by David Seidman

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Leonor Fini

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“Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we become more willing to let our old identities wither and fall away, and enter a dark night of the soul, so that we may stand naked once more in the presence of the great mystery that lies at the core of our being. This is how love ripens us -by warming us from within, inspiring us to break out of our shell, and lighting our way through the dark passage to new birth.”

— John Welwood

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"It was a weird bacchanalian scene, with Janice dancing in wild abandon. . ."

Virgil Finlay (1914-1971) - Illustration for Alexander Blade's 'The Silver Medusa'

(Fantastic Adventures Vol.10 #2, February 1948)

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When Her Highness Lioness Was Scared - Neha & Chittaranjan Desai

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“I have only been able to bear the cruelties and abominations of human life by transfiguration: art, poetry, fantasy.”

— Anaïs Nin, from an unpublished diary entry, 1954

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My religion is not deceiving myself. - Milarepa

Photography by Marcin Negraba

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See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child… The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances. - Atisa

Thomas Woodruff: The Four Temperaments (portrait variation melancholic)

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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose. —Rollo May

Famine by David Seidman

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We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. - Pema Chodron

Adam’s Apple by Jel Ena