Metaphors we live by 🪞
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Metaphors we live by 🪞
you’re not writing by yourself. There is a multiplicity of beings who are co-authoring your work.
Whatever you are writing — however academic or poetic, practical or abstract — let in otherness into your creative process.
By opening our writing habits towards newness and unpredictability, we can find that there’s so much more written at the end.... See more
Whatever you are writing — however academic or poetic, practical or abstract — let in otherness into your creative process.
By opening our writing habits towards newness and unpredictability, we can find that there’s so much more written at the end.... See more
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • From Garden to Wild Herbal Meadow
“Slow down and tune into our seismographs.” The invitation is to practice “sensing to the depths” by finding one’s own inner still point, dropping through the layers of white noise, or using a finely-tuned instrument to hear the subtle signals.
What do we sense from our different perspectives? What do we “hear” and what are the different qualities... See more
What do we sense from our different perspectives? What do we “hear” and what are the different qualities... See more
Nancy Zamierowski • Slow down and tune into our seismographs
Intermezzo: To move in spaces where worlds shift
open.spotify.comHeadwater is a portal
Every river has a headwater, a watering hole somewhere high up.
A place where a water stream emerges onto the surface of the Earth.
Many ancient cultures have seen these places as sacred, places of healing and vision.
Where is your Headwater ?
Your own river collects itself like an underground cloud and starts dripping upwards,... See more
Every river has a headwater, a watering hole somewhere high up.
A place where a water stream emerges onto the surface of the Earth.
Many ancient cultures have seen these places as sacred, places of healing and vision.
Where is your Headwater ?
Your own river collects itself like an underground cloud and starts dripping upwards,... See more
R ūta Žemčugovaitė • Headwaters: 6-Week Course on Writing and Regenerating Your Creative Prowess
The world is a prism, not a window. Wherever we look, we find new refractions.
Maria Popova • The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind
" Square peg in a round hole " is an idiomatic expression which describes the unusual individualist who could not fit into a niche of their society.
Irving Wallace • Square peg in a round hole
Squircular | Procrustean bed
Mindfulness helps you release the tension of your habit energy — like loosening a crossbow.
God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being.