Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty
Inspiration and Stimulations for Your Vagus Nerve: AKA: YOUR GUT FEELINGS
Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty
Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do—take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.
Brian Eno
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 .
Flynn Disney • Movement & Psychology Workshop
From Rafe Kelly
"I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." — Duke Ellington
“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
~ Susan Sontag
~ Susan Sontag
Poetic Outlaws on Substack
I do not have time for things that have no soul.
—Charles Bukowski
It is easy to tell how you are doing in life. When you go outside, how beautiful is the flower? That is how you know.
– Brianna Wiest
"People who know they’re dying often express some variation of one of those four themes — indicating that they waited until it was late to show their appreciation for others or right their interpersonal wrongs, said Mukherjee, author of the award-winning 2011 nonfiction book “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.” Instead, they harbor
... See more“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”
"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
—C. G. Jung
“To achieve greatness, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time”
Leonard Bernstein