The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
Impatience is an argument with reality. The desire for something to be different from what we are experiencing in the here and now. A wish for time to speed up, tomorrow to come sooner, to relive yesterday, or to close your eyes then open them and find yourself in another place.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
The most deceptive rules are not the ones we can see, but the ones we can’t. These can be found hiding deeper in the mind, often unnoticed, just beyond our awareness. Rules that entered our thinking through childhood programming, lessons we’ve forgotten, osmosis from the culture, and emulating the artists who inspired us to try it for ourselves.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
An intention is more than a conscious purpose, it’s the congruence of that purpose. It requires an alignment of all aspects of one’s self. Of conscious thought and unconscious beliefs, of capabilities and commitment, of actions when working and not. It’s a state of living in harmonic agreement with oneself.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
Sometimes disengaging is the best way to engage.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
All art is a work in progress. It’s helpful to see the piece we’re working on as an experiment. One in which we can’t predict the outcome. Whatever the result, we will receive useful information that will benefit the next experiment. If you start from the position that there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and creativity is just free play
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If you see tremendous beauty or tremendous pain where other people see little or nothing at all, you’re confronted with big feelings all the time. These emotions can be confusing and overwhelming. When those around you don’t see what you see and feel what you feel, this can lead to a sense of isolation and a general feeling of not belonging, of
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It’s not always easy to follow the subtle energetic information the universe broadcasts, especially when your friends, family, coworkers, or those with a business interest in your creativity are offering seemingly rational advice that challenges your intuitive knowing.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
Look for what you notice but no one else sees.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
It helps to keep in mind that language is an imperfect means of communication. An idea is altered and diluted through its mistranslation into words. Those words are then further distorted through our filter as we take them in, leaving us in a world of ambiguity. It requires patience and diligence to get past the story of what you think you’re
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