Maybe this is what wisdom looks like... not the triumph of heart over mind or mind over heart, but the slow development of discernment . The ability to hold multiple sources of information—logical, emotional, somatic, intuitive—and let them inform each other.

“The intellect is a great danger to creativity, because you use it to rationalize and make up reasons for things instead of trusting your own basic truth: who you are, what you are, what you want to be.

I’ve had a sign over my typewriter for 25 years now, which reads: Don’t Think! You must never think at the typewriter. You must feel. Thinking is... See more