Finding my Creativity

Quotes, HTs, Ideas on how to find, encourage, and use my very own creativity

In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do—spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery. A mystery draws us in, leads us on, lures us. (A duty may numb us out, turn us off, tune us ou... See more

Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Filling the Well

Infrastructure might be built by hands but culture is built by tongues. The person who changes the cultural conversation is someone who is able to identify truth and describe it so others can not only understand but participate in the story as a conscious being themselves.

Changing the cultural conversation, storytelling

Wittgenstein said that “you cannot enter worlds for which you do not have the language.” Jenny Odell, in How to Do Nothing, discusses how learning the language of birders helped her distinguish better between different birds. One of the most pleasurable parts of learning a new domain for me is developing the language that accompanies the developmen... See more

The intelligence of the will leads to a spiritual view of action. Whether we’re in touch with it or not, each of us has a part that wants to ceaselessly move forward and create. This is our immortal part, the higher self. It is connected to a higher life that fills us with wisdom and makes us indifferent to temporary failure. The goal of modern spi

Phil Stutz • Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

The self that wishes action

Nature transcends our tendencies to label and classify, to reduce and limit. The natural world is unfathomably more rich, interwoven, and complicated than we are taught, and so much more mysterious and beautiful.

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Saturn - binding and supporting. Classifications can bind or support, depending upon intent and use.

“Creative evolution isn’t about mastering every trend. It’s about carrying who you already are into what comes next.”

The tool is not the skill

Agustin Sanchez, via Medium Article. Creative Evolution Core

The world of reason can be narrow and filled with dead ends, while a spiritual viewpoint is limitless and invites fantastic possibilities. The unseen world is boundless.

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Reason and Spirit

No matter what tools you use to create, the true instrument is you. And through you, the universe that surrounds us all comes into focus.

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Bringing the Universe into focus

The capacious term 'spirituality' lacks clarity because it is not so much a unitary concept as a signpost for a range of touchstones; our search for meaning, our sense of the sacred, the value of compassion, the experience of transcendence, the hunger for transformation.

Dr Jonathan Rowson • The Spiritual and the Political: Beyond Russell Brand

Broad range of meaning