Authenticity is the new currency

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

Sasha Chapin x.com

Every expression of you is valid because it emanates from you, an instance of the universe experiencing itself. Who are you to deny the universe?

Sara Campbell x.com

Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.

Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, their own way of fracturing reality, and then if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings”

— David Foster Wallace

“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

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)

But nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

This is more difficult, because there is no zeitgeist to read, no template to follow, no mask to wear. Set aside what... See more

Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Osho • Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)

James Clear • “1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech”