Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

The intelligence of the universe is social. — Marcus Aurelius

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others. — Eknath Easwaran

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

In the great body of human society it is impossible to establish unity and coordination if one part is considered perfect and the other imperfect. When the perfect functions of both parts are in...

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens...

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

The world has a way of guiding your steps. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

The land knows you, even when you are lost. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

The story of our relationship to the earth is written more truthfully on the land than on the page. It lasts there. The land remembers what we said and what we did. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

For me, writing is an act of reciprocity with the world; it is what I can give back in return for everything that has been given to me. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

The most important thing each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world. Individuality is cherished and nurtured, because, in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to...

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others. — James A. Garfield

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Respect one another, support one another, bring your gift to the world and receive the gifts of others, and there will be enough for all. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Reciprocity is a matter of keeping the gift in motion through self-perpetuating cycles of giving and receiving. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Gifts from the earth or from each other establish a particular relationship, an obligation of sorts to give, to receive, and to reciprocate. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve...

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Cultures of gratitude must also be cultures of reciprocity. Each person, human or no, is bound to every other in a reciprocal relationship. Just as all beings have a duty to me, I have a duty to them....

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do...

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

If a man any ways doubt whether what he is going to do to another man be agreeable to the law of nature, then let him suppose himself to be in that other man's room. — John Wise

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. This, as the sages of many lands have taught us, is a golden...

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings. — Rollo May