Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 10 - Wikisource, the free online library
This is why art matters: because it dredges our psychic depths in ways that even the artist may not understand. “The arts,” writes the Zen poet Gary Snyder, following Levi-Strauss, “are the wilderness areas of the imagination, surviving like national parks in the midst of civilized minds.” Strange things grow in the wilderness; unusual plants... See more
Paul Kingsnorth • The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth
And well contrived words, firm fixing, never forgotten,
William Blake • Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 12 - Wikisource, the free online library
Create something, anything—write a line of poetry, doodle an image, hum a melody, take some objects near you and arrange them into a sculpture, do a dance move. Now destroy what you created, physically if you can, but also mentally. Forget it completely. The world is changed. You are changed. The idea will return in one form or another, in your... See more
Roger's Bacon • Ideas are Alive and You are Dead
We must cease to concern ourselves with our unique suffering – whether we are happy or sad, fortunate or unfortunate, good or bad – and give up our neurotic and debilitating journeys of self-discovery. Art of true value requires, like a jealous and possessive god, nothing less than our complete obedience. It insists that we retract our ego, our... See more
www.henrikkarlsson.xyz • Two Kinds of Introspection
How can a man practice in transcending his conscious mind into the subconscious? Create without thought. Just pour our immediate meaning through expression.