Steffi Lee
@a_navelgazer
Steffi Lee
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
—John Stuart Mill
—John Stuart Mill
To grow outwards and reaching in all different directions, instead of confining ourselves to one narrow path where we keep burrowing deeper and deeper until
We can’t look over the walls of our chosen tunnels anymore
Elizabeth Gilbert (@elizabeth_gilbert_writer) reflects on how she stays connected to the people she’s lost. On this week’s Wild Card with Rachel Martin, Gilbert talks about why she wants herself and others to be shown mercy.
Watch the full interview at the link in bio.
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instagram.comKindness is a skill issue.
Just putting together a piece on the merits of feeling vs. thinking in the creative process. Was reminded of this powerful clip of writer Ray Bradbury … it’s a good one if you don’t know it.
#inspiration #creativity #creativecoaching #creativitycoach #feeling #writing
instagram.comOur intellectual and active powers increase with our affection. The scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one good thought or happy expression; but it is necessary to write a letter to a friend, and, forthwith, troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves, on every hand, with chosen words.
Emotion and intellect are invariably tied. Life is a dance of both, you must seek out experiences that will allow their emerging and dance — and that is both by being with yourself and with others. Thinking about feeling and feeling your thoughts.
Another thing that I think helped me was to view emotions holistically, ie neither cognitive states nor feelings in the body. Rather an emotion is a state that has many components: dispositions to actions, physiological responses, recurrent thoughts, altered attention, etc.
Thinking vs feeling and the false binary
What they don’t teach you is individuals who genuinely like themselves are some of the safest people you can meet
To become a safe place for all- life’s biggest project
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.” – Anaïs Nin