“There are two ways of looking at things. One is simply looking at them, whereas the other involves considering them attentively. Merely to see is nothing else than receiving into the eye the form or likeness of the object that is looked at; but to consider a thing is more like this: it is to seek with special diligence after the means of knowing this object thoroughly.”
~ Nicolas Poussin
“Non devi capire! Guai a capire! Che faresti dopo? Tu devi solo ascoltare: solo sentirle, quelle voci e augurarti che non si stanchino mai di chiamarti.”
Dal film di Federico Fellini “La Voce della luna”
“ You must not understand! Woe to anyone who tries to understand! What would you do after? You must only listen: only listen to them, to those voices, and hope that they will never get tired to call on you.”
From Federico Fellini’s movie La voce della luna.
“Do not follow rules and principles, but paint what you see and feel. Paint boldly and without hesitation, because it is important to get your first impressions down. And do not be shy of nature! You must be bold , even at the risk of going wrong and making mistakes. There is only one teacher: nature ….”
-Camille Piasarro
“I have been bent and broken, but, I hope into a better shape.”
From Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
The lines have fallen to me
In pleasant places.
From Psalm 16: 6-8 (NKJV)
Il dono più grande del maestro non è il dono del sapere ma quello di saper “tacere l’amore.” Questo dono è il più prezioso perché non vincola l’allievo ad alcuna obbedienza, ma lo lascia sempre libero di andarsene, di separarsi dal maestro.
Da L’ora di Lezione di Massimo Recalcati
Translation:
The greatest gift of the teacher is not the gift of knowledge but rather that of knowing how to keep their love quiet. This is the most precious gift because it doesn’t not bind the student to any form of obedience but rather it lets them free to leave, to separate themselves from the teacher.”
Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: you can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions.
– From The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
“The lack of anonymity had been claustrophobic when she was younger. Now it felt soothing, reassuring. Now she needed it. Wondrous, how so small a thing as a neighbor at the post office could set things right again when they felt off.”
By N.D. Galland, On the same page
“Engage with things that someone put a lot of work into.”
by Melissa Kirsch, New York Times
“Observance of the soul can be deceptively simple. You take back what has been disowned. You work with what is, rather than with what you wish were there.”
Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul
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