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When we are disappointed by a pleasure which we have been expecting and which comes, the disappointment is be. cause we were expecting the future. And as soon as it is there, it is the present. We want the future to be there with. out ceasing to be future. This is an absurdity of which eternity alone is the cure.
Weil, Gravity & Grace, 66
There are two parts of the mind. The outer mind that records facts and the inner mind that says "yes" and "no". When you think of something that you should do the inner mind says "yes" and you feel elated. We call this inspiration.
Agnes Martin, Writings, 153
Living by inspiration is living. Living by intellect—by comparisons, calculations, schemes, concepts, ideas—is all a structure of pride in which there is not beauty or happiness—no life.
The intellectual is in fact death.
Agnes Martin, Writings, 137-8
To live and work by inspiration you have to stop thinking.
You have to hold your mind still in order to hear inspiration clearly.
You have to hold your mind still in order to hear inspiration clearly.
Agnes Martin, Writings, 137
You can only be happy by being on the path of your unfolding potential.
The path will be revealed to you by a request to your own mind.
The path will be revealed to you by a request to your own mind.
Agnes Martin, Writings, 116
This is the side of death in the adventure of life versus death. We will be disrespectful of life and everything in it, even of our-selves. We will be complaining and destructive and we will have resistance to living our own life.
Other peoples lives will look better to us than our own life, more interesting and more rewarding.
This is a very unnatur... See more
Other peoples lives will look better to us than our own life, more interesting and more rewarding.
This is a very unnatur... See more
Agnes Martin, Writings, 113
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