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Thought

The part, the whole, the volume, the values, the composition, the emotional quiver, everything, is there... Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. One sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory of colour. That is what a picture gives us, a warm harmony, an abyss in which the eye is lost, a secret germination, a coloured state of grace. All these tones circulate in the blood, don’t they? One is revivified, born into the real world, one finds oneself, one becomes the painting. To love a painting, one must first have drunk deeply of it in long draughts. Lose consciousness. Descend with the painter into the dim tangled roots of things, and rise again from them in colours, be steeped in the light of them.

(J. Gasquet, Cézanne) 

— Marion Milner. The Plunge Into Colour – Creators on Creating.

Quote 

Writer Howard Thurman on purpose in life:

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Gratitude Practice 

Gratitude Rock: I’ve done this one for a few years now. Find a small rock that you really like and carry it around with you. Whenever you feel or see the rock, use it as a reminder to think of something that you’re grateful for.   

Happy Monday,

Val