Living a more creative life

Exploring a life shaped by creativity—not as side project, hobby or escape, but as a way of being.

Here I gather sparks of inspiration and practice to stay close to imagination, expression, and flow.

More generally, it’s not beginnings and ends that count, but middles. Things and thoughts advance or grow out from the middle, and that’s where you have to get to work, that’s where everything unfolds.

– Gilles Deleuze, On Leibniz

For me, a creative life is about envisioning futures that don’t yet exist and finding small ways to bring them into being—through the ideas I shape at work, the conversations I spark with friends, or the rituals I build into my day. It means choosing curiosity over fear, whether that’s trying something new, asking the harder question, or noticing

So, to create something truly alive and nourishing, we must be willing to immerse ourselves in the rich, fertile soil of our own humanity – the depths of our emotions, experiences, and connections to the world around us.

Steyn Viljoen • Beautiful, boring, and without soul 🕌

Deepening our connection to nature will serve our spint, and what serves our spirit invariably serves our artistic output.

The closer we can get to the natural world, the sooner wr start to realize we are not separate. And that when we cre ate, we are not just expressing our unique individuality, bur our seamless connection to an infinite oneness.

Though we can't change what it is that we are noticing, we can change our ability to notice.

We can expand our awareness and narrow it, experience it with our eyes open or closed. We can quiet our inside so we can perceive more on the outside, or quiet the outside so we can notice more of what's happening inside.

We can zoom in on something so

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