Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty

Inspiration and Stimulations for Your Vagus Nerve: AKA: YOUR GUT FEELINGS

“You see, alcohol in Latin is spiritus and you use the same word for the highest religious experience as well as for the most depraving poison.”

–C. G. Jung’s letter to Bill Wilson in 1961, shortly before Jung’s death

Taken from the epigraph to Richard Rohr’s book Breathing Underwater

We are so obsessed with seeing if AI can do the things we do, but the real potential is things humans are in capable of. What can’t you do that is now possible? 

Tom White substack.com

"Art is not a product but a ritual of the psyche, weaving meaning from the human experience AI cannot touch."

-Bradley McDevitt

”People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.”

— Bertrand Russell

I find the mismanagement of time completely inspirational. It’s an illusion anyway. One person’s procrastination is another person’s creative boredom.

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

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... See more

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