Optimal grip

This love ethic must be at the center of our whole life, or it cannot be effective or real in the crucial moments of conflict. We have to practice drawing our lives from this new source, in thought, word, emotion, and deed, every day, or we will never be prepared for the major confrontations or the surprise humiliations that will come our way.

Just a moment...

The goal of nonviolence is always winning the friendship and the understanding of the supposed opponent, not their humiliation or personal defeat. It must be done to eventually facilitate the process of reconciliation, and we ourselves must be willing to pay the price for that reconciliation.

Just a moment...

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”

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Iris Murdoch

A quote from Existentialists and Mystics

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Tobias van Schneider @vanschneider

Playing is the whole point

If your life is cluttered, your creativity will be too.

If you are unfocused, your creative expression will be too.

If your brain is overstimulated, your ideas won’t have enough oxygen to breathe.

If your self-worth is tied to your last post, painting, or paycheck, then creativity will always feel like a rigged game.

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Anna Seirian • The unbearable weight of trusting your creativity without knowing if it will work

Making > Consuming

The solution for the eternal child’s desperation is simply to do. Make art, write, clean without thinking, get off the phone [in a word create things and learn to sit with the mistakes, by doing this you accept death by dwelling in the world instead of dwelling in the postponement of fantasy (“i’ll do that when i grow up”)].... See more

dancing4heaven

Emotions are, first of all, a gift from God so that we can touch upon reality by a way other than our brain.

—Richard Rohr

Daily Meditations — Center for Action and Contemplation

the more I improvise (on piano, in improv) the more I realize how much control my brain has had on how I move through life, and there is a practice of letting your body carry you, play for you, take action and speak for you. I am learning to exist body-first ?

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