"To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are." - Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
“To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.” –… Continue Reading →
"All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation." - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"Life is a dance. And when you dance you enjoy the dance while you dance. No one goes dancing just for it to end." - Alan Watts
“Life is a dance. And when you dance you enjoy the dance while you dance. No one goes dancing just for it to end.” – Alan Watts
Author and writing teacher Julia Cameron on what it takes to improve:
"It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one."
Source: The Artist's Way
Author and writing teacher Julia Cameron on what it takes to improve: “It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist,… Continue Reading →
Writer Jeanette Winterson on the connection between art and an open mind:
"Most of us spend a lot of time censoring everything that we see and hear. Does it fit with our world picture? And if it doesn't, how can we shut it out, how can we ignore it, how can we challenge it? We are continually threatened in life, it's true. But once you are alone with a book, and it's also true with a picture or with music, all those defenses drop and you can enter into a quite different space where you will learn to think differently about yourself."
Source: Women at Work Vol II: Interviews from the Paris Review
Writer Jeanette Winterson on the connection between art and an open mind: “Most of us spend a lot of time censoring everything that we see and hear. Does it fit with our world picture? And if it doesn’t, how can… Continue Reading →
"Do more things that make you forget to check your phone."
“Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.“
Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman with some advice for life:
"Fall in love with some activity, and do it!
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly ev...
"Never let perfection get in the way of good enough." - Casey Neistat
“Never let perfection get in the way of good enough.” – Casey Neistat
"People are always asking me if I'll ever get tired of shooting the mountains, I don't think I have an answer to that. The things that are around you every day are always the easiest to take for granted.
Awesome. Beautiful. Majestic. Sublime. All the big cliché words fall a little bit short.
There's a loneliness that always surprises me. It reminds you how small you are. How small your worries and problems are. I think we all need to be reminded that from time to time." - Peter McKinnon
“People are always asking me if I’ll ever get tired of shooting the mountains, I don’t think I have an answer to that. The things that are around you every day are always the easiest to take for granted. Awesome…. Continue Reading →
A parable from priest and therapist Anthony de Mello on the stories we tell ourselves:
"A man found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chickens and grew up with them.
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