Elise

“All change in the quality of a person's life must grow out of a change in his vision of reality.”
― John Joseph Powell, Fully Human Fully Alive: A New Life Through a New Vision

“Emotions are only indicators. Habitual patterns of negative emotions are always a signal of some underlying misconception.”
― John Joseph Powell, Fully Human Fully Alive: A New Life Through a New Vision

“I must act against my phobias. Only in doing it will I learn that I CAN do it and thereby dispatch another delusion. Every day we should all do something that will extend us; we should win little victories over our fears that will widen the world and our lives.”
― John Joseph Powell, Fully Human Fully Alive: A New Life Through a New Vision

“A tree inhales and stills air’s fibrillating breath, holding it in wood, like a kami. Each year’s growth rings jackets the previous, capturing in layered derma precise molecular signatures of the atmosphere timbered memories. Wood emerges from relationship with air, catalyzed by the flash of electrons through membranes. Atmosphere and plant make each other; plant as temporary crystallization of carbon, air as product of 400 million years of forest breath. Neither tree nor air has a narrative, a telos of its own, for neither is its own.”
― David George Haskell, The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors