i love everything that flows.
humor and curiosity are the two most important components of intelligence.
create and live w/o fear, shame or humiliation.
thread follows needle.
i am an iceberg. what you don't see is fascinating.
memory is desire satisfied.
...“That biblical story about the seven good years and the seven bad years? That happened to me,” Ms. Soberats, 77, said in an interview at her home in Jackson Heights.
“I think their sickness helped me cope with my blindness. Because I wasn’t thinking about that. I was thinking about them. How much they were suffering, how much they were going through.”
...“I feel your face, your hair, then I’ll ask you: ‘Are you light-colored? Or dark? Is your hair blonde or brown or black?’ ” she said. “So with asking and touching, then I’ll get an idea of what I have to work with.”
“It surprised me that the human mind can do whatever it wants if we work toward it,” Ms. Soberats said.
Read and see her vision on LENS.
Mindfulness gives you time.
Time gives you choices.
Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom.
You don't have to be swept away by your feelings.
You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.
- Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English
If you’re going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind.
It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery — isolation.
Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.
Austin Kleon, an artist, writer, observer and thinker gave a talk about what he wished he'd heard as a young creator.
He expanded his ideas and wrote a book: Steal Like an Artist
He said: This book is me talking to a previous version of myself.
These are things I’ve learned over almost a decade of trying to figure out how to make art, but a funny thing happened when I started sharing them with others — I realized that they aren’t just for artists. They’re for everyone.
These ideas are for everyone who’s trying to inject some creativity into their life and their work. (That should describe all of us.) Reposted from Brain Pickings.
Steal Like An Artist on Amazon.
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