Tilda Swinton's Lessons on Radical Living

INTENTIONAL LIVING

Make friends with chaos
Hold a calm mind
Let things shake
Forgive human frailty
Champion second chances
Defy unkindness
Reverence fellowship
Listen to the quiet
Respect the young
Seek growth
Trust in change
Treasure learning
Inspire faith in evolution
Reach beyond the binary
Be wary be of the doubtless
Honour the bright headed
Grow plants
Attend to the weather
Be electric
Cherish language
Celebrate silence
Dance daily
Bless the handmade
Sing into pain
Challenge assumptions
Follow the wind
Look upwards
Swoon under clouds
Feel your courage
Face forward
Read history
Open your ears
Drop your shoulders
Bend your knees
Raise the roof
Keep breathing
Be trustwortyhy
Take care of yourself
Belief in goodness
Head for the light

Timeslip (Fragment) | Derek Jarman & Tilda Swinton (1995 / 2025)

What are the lessons and meaning of fourty years of work ? In Tilda Swinton – Ongoing, the celebrated Scottish actress gives her answer: relationships & creative co-operation.

The exhibition I visited in Amsterdam's EYE Film Museum opened my eyes (yet again) as to how art (and life!) are in a way more like a neverending dialogue - made up of connections & shared ideas. Instead of the 'end result', it is the exchange - based on trust, friendship and creativity - that matters.

At the end of the exhibition Tilda shared her notes for radical living. I think they very much sum up a what a fully awake & ecstatic life in tantra could entail. I took the liberty of sharing them here, as they continue to inspire me.

I am curious though: what would your list look like?

By Noëlle ter Braak
2026 / March 18

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