Alix
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Creativity fuels life. Writer at Breaking Through Creative Blocks, a newsletter about getting unstuck and doing work that makes us feel alive.
Alix
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Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. ― Susan Sontag
From the Archive | How To Be A Writer
What had prevented my mum making the art she wanted to during the first five and a half decades of her life? The same stuff that stops endless amounts of people fulfilling the more creative life they desire: a tiring full-time job, the concomitant extra job of being a good parent, house moves and house renovations, a lack of self-belief rooted to a
... See moreHow strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
- nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know…nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. perhaps there is no solid obstacle except our own need to protect ourselves from being touched. maybe the only enemy is that we don’t like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as pr... See more
from When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
Deep is so un-American now, even radical. We live too often like water skeeters on the surface of the pond, dropping down for a quick bite of insect or e-mail. Deep is the realm of soul.
from Hallelujah Anyway by Anne Lamott
“When a system is far from equilibrium small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order.”
- Chemist and Nobel Laureate, Illya Prigogine
“My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don’t go back to the past. It’s only a ghost; it’s unreal.” And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness." (Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear)
Be the Gateway: A Practical Guide to Sharing Your Creative Work and Engaging an Audience
by Dan Blank
