conversational creativity

creativity is but an unfolding conversation

if your work is solely driven by how people respond to it, you’ll create something popular but soulless

if it’s driven by how you feel about it, you’ll create something potent but obscure

but if your work is a dialogue between self & world, it can be both resonant & true

scott • Tweet

Thea • Tweet

communication is conversion

Andrew McLuhan • Tweet

orph • Tweet

There is a Tibetan form of spiritual hyperstition that is more powerful than any of the modern day forms.

It works by living and believing as if you have already awakened to the ultimate truth of reality.

Tibetan Buddhists mastered this technique hundreds of years ago.

In their “pure vision” practice, they spend all day everyday playing the role of an... See more

Vacha • Tweet

I believe that at the heart of everyone’s body of work there is a Defining Question: an unanswerable, deep-seated question that we hold subconsciously from the time it is seeded in our youth. I also believe that alongside that question is an ache. Our exploration of our Defining Question is our attempt to soothe the... See more

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When you stop reading, you stop writing.

When you stop writing, you stop thinking.

When you stop thinking, you stop feeling.

When you stop feeling, you stop believing.

When you stop believing, you stop building.

When you stop building, you stop bettering.

When you stop bettering, you stop caring.

When you stop caring, you stop living.

Tom White • When You Stop Living

Dostoevsky, unlike most other authors, treats his characters as full individuals, as if they are too big to fit in his head: he isn’t using them as mouth pieces but is listening to them. His books are polyphonic: they are made up of a multitude of voices, each with their own inner logic and perspective, and there is no voice that stands above the... See more