how to cultivate creativity

The sunshine of life springs from twin suns. We may call them love and art. We may call them connection and creativity. Both can take many forms. Both, if they are worth their salt and we ours, ask us to show up as our whole selves. Both are instruments of unselfing.

“You need time. And that doesn’t mean necessarily even working full-time on it itself; it means time to throw some ideas together and let them sit, go off and do something else, come back and see what still feels right.”

–Christopher Nolan

It is often in the cradle of friendship — a word not to be used carelessly — that our creative energies are strengthened and renewed.

I am convinced that when we’re drawn to someone else’s creative output, it’s not so much the work that attracts us as it is the energy that drives it — the confidence, emotionality, or sheer authenticity that underlies its production.

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a moodboard on creating through the fear

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

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Jack London