Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty

Elenchus

The antidote is imagination, which is the essence of the inner self. The more imaginative power we have, the more we are able to rethink the world, see beyond the mimetic rivalries that can become so constraining.

Imagination expands the world. Just as economic growth and technological invention create new things in the world—things unknown since the beginning of time—so does language. We live, as the poet Robert Graves said, in a web of language. The bigger our web, the bigger our world.

Facing you, soaring up from the depths of the valley, is the mighty, glacier-tipped peak, its smooth snowfields and hard-edged rock-faces touched at this moment with soft rose-colour by the last rays of the departing sun, all marvellously sharp against the clear, pale, transparent blue of the sky.According to our usual way of looking at it, everyth... See more

It’s tough, but curating our exposure to incoming data is critical. If we are consistently participating in a cycle of negativity, this can and will affect our minds. Seek balance. While we cannot bury our heads in the sand and hide from darker realities, we should seek positive and neutral content to supplement. The world has both darkness and lig... See more

I have a different view of the value of music. I believe music is a source of enchantment and a change agent in human life. So in my economics, a song can possess great value

Adrienne Rich wrote, “I do know that art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage.”

Movement also has an ecology. In wild animals, movement is goal-directed , emotionally motivated , reflex coordinated and absolutely present . This is the natural ecology of movement, to which humans have introduced a new and sometimes destructive species: abstract thought .

Who is he that shall control me?

Why may not I act & speak & write & think

with entire freedom? What am I to the

Universe, or, the Universe, what

is it to me?