Jodi Peden

“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
― William James, The Principles of Psychology

“The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
― Jelaluddin Rumi , The Essential Rumi