Alix
@alix
Creativity fuels life. Writer at Breaking Through Creative Blocks, a newsletter about getting unstuck and doing work that makes us feel alive.
@alix
Creativity fuels life. Writer at Breaking Through Creative Blocks, a newsletter about getting unstuck and doing work that makes us feel alive.
so tired of headline names. and before i hear “but that’s what gets people to click”, i don’t care. be authentic, be passionate, if you are just doing it for clicks, then i probably don’t want to read it anyway. /rant
“10 things…” sigh.
“5 things…” enough with the lists.
“82,327 things…” ridiculous.
“x that will blow your mind…” rarely.
“tried x and it’
There’s a mysterious door that appears when we stop attaching ourselves to the comfort of what we believe to be are our obstacles. This is where the light of our inner fire appears. This is where we start to see, feel and listen. This is where we stop pretending. And this is where we no longer seek refuge outside of ourselves..." Tanya Lee Markul
“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
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 more“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)