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“To believe that God can sanctify and utilize the imagination is simply to take seriously the Christian idea of incarnation.”—Richard Foster
The mystic swims in the same waters that the schizophrenic drowns in -n/a (some ppl say joseph campbell)
Baudelaire wrests the defining feature of creative genius: [The great artist is one] who is never for a moment without the genius of childhood — a gen
If you’re going to be weird, at least be confident about it.
Thomas Jefferson and the Power of Many Pursuits
Essay The Annual Arc: Your Year as a Story, Not as a Scorecard Most people approach Annual Reviews like accountants — auditing wins and losses, tallyi
The Blank Card naming what was never your fault Download Most of us born in the late sixties and seventies learned early how to l
f you never quite feel at home in your life, if being conscious means primarily being conscious of your own separation from the world and from divinit
The wall is what separates them, but it is also the only means they have of communicating. “It is the same with us and God,” she says. “Every separati
No man* knows how much he is an optimist, even when he calls himself a pessimist, because he has not really measured the depths of his debt to whateve
Collection of art instruction, art reference, learning
The wall is what separates them, but it is also the only means they have of communicating. “It is the same with us and God,” she says. “Every separati
Baudelaire wrests the defining feature of creative genius: [The great artist is one] who is never for a moment without the genius of childhood — a gen
No man* knows how much he is an optimist, even when he calls himself a pessimist, because he has not really measured the depths of his debt to whateve
the greatest gift a parent can give a child is “a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote again
With an eye to Goethe’s immortal line, Hesse writes:Wonder is where it starts, and though wonder is also where it ends, this is no futile path. Whethe
Hesse laments:Our universities fail to guide us down the easiest paths to wisdom... Rather than teaching a sense of awe, they teach the very opposite:
What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.
the greatest gift a parent can give a child is “a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote again
With an eye to Goethe’s immortal line, Hesse writes:Wonder is where it starts, and though wonder is also where it ends, this is no futile path. Whethe
Hesse laments:Our universities fail to guide us down the easiest paths to wisdom... Rather than teaching a sense of awe, they teach the very opposite:
What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.
Contemplative Thoughts, insights and practices
Most of us will never get the opportunity to live in the bole of a hollow tree, and probably wouldn't much like it if we did. But it is possible to be
In his little book Do You Know Yourself?7, a collection of talks on Christianity and psychology, the late Fr Symeon Kragiopoulos, a Greek Bishop with
Father Symeon should have the last word, I think, because I have written too many already:‘Spiritual work happens secretly in the heart. Externally, l
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."—Howard Thur
“One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tri
The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite li
Essay The Annual Arc: Your Year as a Story, Not as a Scorecard Most people approach Annual Reviews like accountants — auditing wins and losses, tallyi
The philosopher Kierkegaard wrote 150 years ago, and he was one of the first psychological philosophers who really wrote about anxiety. He regarded hi
because of their propensity to hop domains, generalists tend to possess a wide set of shallow skills. But measuring them against their rudimentary cod
When risk feels too big
From the Inner Compass deck guidebook by Neel van Lierop, under ‘Open Doors’: “Do not try and open doors with sheer willpower, go for the ones that
Concepts, Questions, and themes I need to explore
[Mental Tune-Up #2] Calculate Your Mental State
If your intention is to ‘make art’, then maybe you’ll get a couple of good paintings. You may even get a show or two. But I think of it this way: I do
We are broken things, amongst other broken things. We are imperfect and characterised by our capacity to fuck things up, yet still we can move increme
Richard Feynman on passion, curiosity, and living fully: “Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about,
