… a wonderful evenness marked my days and nights so that waking and sleeping I felt a sweet balance that was delicate and strong. To know this equilibrium was such a positive experience that every hour I renewed my consciousness of it, turning to it, feeling it in wonder and humility.

When I was with Tony (Luhan), I was in tune with all outdoors and with myself as well, for the first time in my life. I felt real at last… a true reality of my own was coming into being within me… I could sit in the window and look out on the world and know that I was part of it.

— Mabel Dodge Luhan, Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality, 245