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”.
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.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
All of this is arising inside the long-established paradigm of distinction, of relating to the world as made up of discrete objects — of which each of us is one.
We are trained from infancy in this paradigm; our parents point to things and people and name them, they repeat and insist and take great pains to ensure we see these things as distinct fro... See more
We are trained from infancy in this paradigm; our parents point to things and people and name them, they repeat and insist and take great pains to ensure we see these things as distinct fro... See more