bihind the lens

The Failure Paradox: You have to fail more to succeed more. Our greatest moments of growth often stem directly from our greatest failures. Don’t fear failure, just learn to fail smart and fast.

"What's the most complete span of a life, you ask? To live until attaining wisdom. Whoever reaches that goal ends furthest, not at a point but greatest. Let that man rejoice boldly in the truth, and give thanks to the gods, and to himself among these; let him credit the cosmos for his creation, and deservedly so, for he returns to the cosmos a better life than the one he got. He has set the template of the good man, and revealed its measure and its quality. If he had added anything to it, the addition would have been similar to what came before." — How to Die, Seneca

It’s a tragedy that life is taken so seriously. This is a result in the belief that we are limited, we are in danger, and that consciousness comes to an end.

You are the open field of Awareness. Thoughts and beliefs of being limited are just that - fleeting things…

Trust the overthinker who tells you they love you. They have, most assuredly, thought of every reason not to. — L.K. Pilgrim

"The price of productivity is creativity."

— Naval Ravikant

Yet it may be, they went on, that there is a zone of silence in the middle of every art. The artists themselves live in it.

— from Walter Sickert: A Conversation, 1934, Woolf