you should read the word “I” as a name for a sort of collective of people that meets up in me. I try to keep that in mind all the time.
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you should read the word “I” as a name for a sort of collective of people that meets up in me. I try to keep that in mind all the time.
Try to make things that can become better in other people's minds than they were in yours.
—Brian Eno
Everyone is an artist. Everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. Consciousness is always consciousness of something. There is no fixed world out there, the world is coming toward you and you are coming toward it. And between the two of you, you actually construct the world. It’s never as given as it actu
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
the problem with “i am X” is “i am”.
What do I mean by ‘betweenness'? Think about the nature of music. Music does not exist in one particular note – which is in itself meaningless; or in a lot of such single notes, each in itself meaningless. I am tempted to say it exists more in the spaces than in the notes: the spaces between successive notes in pitch that creates the melody, the sp
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
This constant march into the unknown would not exist without the simultaneous sharing of millions of divergent points of view. Expressing oneself in the world and creativity are the same. It may not be possible to know who you are without somehow expressing it.