"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”
― Maya Angelou
― Maya Angelou
“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.”
~ William Plomer
~ William Plomer
“We might say that both the artist and the neurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an external, active work project.”
"As long as man is an ambiguous creature he can never banish anxiety; what he can do instead is to use anxiety as an eternal spring for growth into new dimensions of thought and trust. Faith poses a new life task, the adventure in openness to a multi-dimensional reality.”
“The most that any one of us can seem to do is to fashion something--an object or ourselves--and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it, so to speak, to the life force.”
“Modern man tries to replace vital awe and wonder with a “How to do it” manual.”
“If there is tragic limitation in life there is also possibility. What we call maturity is the ability to see the two in some kind of balance into which we can fit creatively.”
“Beyond a given point man is not helped by more “knowing,” but only by living and doing in a partly self-forgetful way. As Goethe put it, we must plunge into experience and then reflect on the meaning of it. All reflection and no plunging drives us mad; all plunging and no reflection, and we are brutes.”
― Ernest Becker
"As long as man is an ambiguous creature he can never banish anxiety; what he can do instead is to use anxiety as an eternal spring for growth into new dimensions of thought and trust. Faith poses a new life task, the adventure in openness to a multi-dimensional reality.”
“The most that any one of us can seem to do is to fashion something--an object or ourselves--and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it, so to speak, to the life force.”
“Modern man tries to replace vital awe and wonder with a “How to do it” manual.”
“If there is tragic limitation in life there is also possibility. What we call maturity is the ability to see the two in some kind of balance into which we can fit creatively.”
“Beyond a given point man is not helped by more “knowing,” but only by living and doing in a partly self-forgetful way. As Goethe put it, we must plunge into experience and then reflect on the meaning of it. All reflection and no plunging drives us mad; all plunging and no reflection, and we are brutes.”
― Ernest Becker
The trick to regaining your childlike wonder
The trick to regaining your childlike wonder by Zach King, TEDTalks Sept 15, 2022 When we ditch our assumptions, new ideas can enter the world, says filmmaker Zach King. In an entertaining talk full of props and surprises, King shows us the trick to regaining our sense of childlike wonder...
When we ditch our assumptions, new ideas can enter the world.
“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”
“Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.”
― Heraclitus
“Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.”
― Heraclitus
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