Ashely Peifer
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Ashely Peifer
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns...that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale...that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.”
— Bob Dylan
— Bob Dylan
The ability to look deeply
is the root of creativity.
To see past the ordinary and mundane
and get to what might otherwise be invisible.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act
Plants know how to make food and medicine from light and water, and then they give it away.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
One of the hallmarks of contemplation is simplicity. As you learn to contemplate, you will learn to gradually simplify your life. The less cluttered your external life is, the less cluttered your mind will feel.
Richard Rudd • The Art of Contemplation: Gentle path to wholeness and prosperity
Psychography : a treatise on one of the objective forms of psychic or spiritual phenomena : Moses, Stainton : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Psychography
Abundance is fueled by constantly circulating materials, not wasting them
Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry
The fear of making mistakes is a particularly strong dampener on one’s learning. You can’t learn if you can’t make mistakes. I like the idea that mastery is simply a very intimate understanding of all the possible mistakes one could make.
Visakan Veerasamy • on scaffolding
The Language of Flowers
The text explores the language of flowers, detailing their symbolic meanings, sentiments they represent, and poetic expressions, offering insights into how flowers convey emotions and thoughts throughout history.
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