The Tarot of Songwriting 08 - Strength
Seek out what magnifies your spirit. Patti Smith, in discussing William Blake and her creative influences, talks about writers and artists who magnified her spirit — it’s a beautiful phrase and a beautiful notion.
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
There’s a time for certain ideas to arrive, and they find a way to express themselves through us.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
The most truthful and irrational aspects of ourselves are often hidden, and our access to them lies through the creation of art.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
When you’re working on a project, you may notice apparent coincidences appearing more often than randomness allows—almost as if there is another hand guiding yours in a certain direction. As if there is an inner knowing gently informing your movements. Faith allows you to trust the direction without needing to understand it.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
If a piece of work, a fragment of consciousness, or an element of nature is somehow allowing us to access something bigger, that is its spiritual component made manifest. It awards us a glimpse of the unseen.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
Avoid becoming attached to the particulars of the problem. Widen your field of view. If the idea takes the project somewhere with a stronger energetic charge, follow the new direction. Demanding to control a work of art would be just as foolish as demanding that an oak tree grow according to your will.