GROWTH

  
Even if there is work to be done – as there always is – true growth means cultivating the capacity to remain free and present in the midst of action, not only when it is done. Focus is fine; a rigid collapse of love – being an asshole until your work is completed – is not. Neither is postponing authentic bliss for the sake of drifting in the mediocrity of functional attention, trivializing the depth of your being for the sake of achieving shallow goals.

-- David Deida, Finding God Through Sex

(from top) Michael Mele and John Ballew, Wolfie, Giuliano Nieri, Linda Mironti, Vicki de Klerk, Allen Siewert, Paul Dennett, Deana Williams and Kerra Quarles