Kingdom without a Name

"If I had to write a poem to end all poems,
it would be the word ‘lonely’
in every language."

~ Caitlyn Siehl

Daron LarsonApril 2, 2018Caitlyn Siehl, poetry, lonelinessComment

We Need Reminders

"The choice isn’t between religion and the secular world, as it is now — the challenge is to learn from religions so we can fill the secular world with replacements for the things we long ago made up religion to provide. The challenge begins here."

~ Alain de Botton

Practice in Life, MagnanimityDaron LarsonApril 29, 2015Alain de Botton, religion, The School of Life, culture, society, belief, prayer, beauty, wisdom, love, loneliness, awe, kindnessComment

We are Here

"It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here."

~ John O'Donohue

Daron LarsonDecember 14, 2014Pina Bausch, dance, John O'Donohue, body, walking, self/other, Rainer Maria Rilke, societ, loneliness, present, miracleComment

All Those Years

Inside everyone
is a great shout of joy
waiting to be born.

~ David Whyte

Daron LarsonDecember 10, 2014David Whyte, silence, self/other, belonging, solitude, loneliness, listening, time, maturity, growing up, poetry, mind, understanding, uncertainty, identity, perfection, acceptanceComment

Our Desire to Transcend Isolation

"Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration. And this is where I think language came from."

Serene Isolation

"The serene isolation that can be felt in a crowded and often chaotic world." ~ Genevieve

See Out, Hear Out, Feel Out, Feel In, Clarity, EquanimityDaron LarsonSeptember 22, 2014musicians, music video, Company of Thieves, loneliness, solitude, peace, equanimity, Genevieve SchatzComment

Must Proceed

Barron Storey talked to Temple of Art about what he does as an artist in the face of failure. This is the result.

Daron LarsonAugust 16, 2014E.E. Cummings, attention, risk, failure, self/other, equanimity, persistence, loneliness, Barron StoreyComment

Powerful Empathy Machine

"Movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts. When I go to a great movie I can live somebody else's life for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief."~ Roger Ebert

Daron LarsonJuly 16, 2014Roger Ebert, connection, empathy, film, loneliness, self, self/other, societyComment

Being One Person in One Head and Feeling

Daron LarsonApril 25, 2014Tanya Davis, libraries, loneliness, poetry, self, solitudeComment

The Important of Kindness and Hush

"There's a thing when we're children we experience. It usually exists in libraries and it's called the hush. Like this magic world called Hush. There's not many places now to find hush. Somethimes I really do think if every person would experience hush—even if they almost have to force it on themselves for a while—just the bird, just the wind, nothing else, hush—there would be less violence."