"The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we see forms stretching in frolic gambols across the dusky landscape, as if Nature had strewn her fresh designs over the fields by night as models for man's art."

– Henry David Thoreau

What can you only see when you let life raise the veil, rather than tearing at it yourself?

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"I exist as I am, that is enough. If no other in the world be aware I sit content."

– Walt Whitman (Song of Myself)

What would change if you believed you were already enough as you are?

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"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier..."

– Hermann Hesse

What would you do with this hour if filling it well were the whole of your happiness?

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"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."

– George Bernard Shaw

When the way seems closed to you, can you notice the door that has quietly opened instead?

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"Every image embodies a way of seeing. Even a photograph. For photographs are not, as is often assumed, a mechanical record."

– John Berger (Ways of Seeing)

What sound, image, or texture filled your well today without your asking?

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"She had a perpetual sense of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day."

– Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway)

Where in your life have you most felt out of place, and what did it teach you?

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"But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms."

– Oscar Wilde

What makes your heart happy?

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"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

– Carl Jung (Letters)

When you wake from striving, how will you know whether you were the one dreaming the butterfly or the butterfly dreaming you?

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"Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born."

– Mary Oliver

What aspects of your relationship bring you the most joy?

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"I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude."

– Brené Brown

What are you most grateful for?

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"The act of walking is itself the closest we come to a state of meditation in motion."

– Rebecca Solnit (A Field Guide to Getting Lost)

Where could you find stillness even in the middle of your busiest days?

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"In solitude, far from the world, Julien found a happiness he had never known — the happiness of knowing himself."

– Stendhal (The Red and the Black)

Where did you find unexpected peace today, and where did you feel undone?

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"There is a solitude of space, a solitude of sea, a solitude of death, but these society shall be compared with that profounder site, that polar privacy — a soul admitted to itself."

– Emily Dickinson (Poem 1695)

Where does your life keep its order when everything is concealed and you alone are the witness?

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"Tyger Tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night; what immortal hand or eye, could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

– William Blake (Songs of Experience)

What flaw in your latest piece might actually be the most alive part of it?

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"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."

– Susan Sontag (On Photography)

What does knowing yourself reveal that knowing everyone else never could?

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"The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming."

– John O'Donohue

When do you feel most at home or like you truly belong?

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"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden."

– Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

Where are you condemning as evil something that is really goodness tortured by its own hunger?

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"Each day and the living of it has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."

– May Sarton

What does a good day actually require, and how often do you give it to yourself?

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"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

– Thich Nhat Hanh (Peace Is Every Step)

How do you define happiness at this stage in your life?

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"Nature is the art of God."

– Dante Alighieri (De Monarchia)

What are you naturally good at?

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