Raul

“You always have to go too far to get anywhere at all, in art or life.”
― Francis Bacon (painter)

“Thoreau got up each morning and walked to the woods as though he had never been where he was going to, so that whatever was there came to him like liquid into an empty glass. Many people taking such a walk would have their heads so full of other ideas that it would be a long time before they were capable of hearing or seeing. Most people are blinded by themselves.”
― John Cage, Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

“When the eye sees, it simply registers color and shape. All the rest takes place in the mind.”
― Ayya Khema, Who Is My Self?: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation

“The measuring of worth and success in the terms of time, and the insistent demand for assurances of a promising future, make it impossible to live freely both in the present and in the "promising" future when it arrives. For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”
― Alan Watts