Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative

making, listening opens possibilities. It allows you to see a bigger world.

Rarely if ever do we know the grand intention, yet if we surrender to the creative impulse, our singular piece of the puzzle takes its proper shape.

If we can tune in to the idea of making things and sharing them without being attached to the outcome, the work is more likely to arrive in its truest form.

To live as an artist is a way of being in the world. A way of perceiving. A practice of paying attention.

An artist casts a line to the universe. We don’t get to choose when a noticing or inspiration comes. We can only be there to receive it. As with meditation, our engagement in the process is what allows the result. Collecting seeds is best approached with active awareness and boundless curiosity. It cannot be muscled, though perhaps it can be willed