Authenticity is the new currency
“If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.” ~Brene Brown
All of the people I know who are very talented and could be hugely successful have an obvious cringe activity standing between them and their reward and they just aren’t yet willing to walk into the tsunami of cringe
Imagination is the one faculty you have that comes closest to God.
Osho • Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
William Blake
A Letter From the Young William Blake in Defense of the Imagination
Authenticity is derived not from the uniqueness of your idea, but from the personal iterative process of creating meaning that takes place between you and your audience when you show up and share. Your ideas might not be unique, but the meaning made through conversation, collaboration, and interplay, is.
Christina Rosalie • 5 Ways To Cultivate An Emergent Mindset
"Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it."
— André Gide
camus was right, real authenticity lies in knowing when to reveal yourself and when to hold back. otherwise your constant self expression becomes a performance to impress others and slowly erodes into vanity. but in restraint, authenticity transforms into an act of generosity, like when someone opens up at just the right moment and you see them in ... See more