Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty
Inspiration and Stimulations for Your Vagus Nerve: AKA: YOUR GUT FEELINGS
Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty
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.
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“Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.”
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Elenchus
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“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of cont
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You’re not inactive because you lack motivation, you lack motivation because you’re inactive. You don't need to feel inspired to start creating, you need to start creating to feel inspired. Action creates traction. All you need is to start and the rest will inevitably follow.
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Tout bouge
“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
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Artists cannot simply ignore his charge that our failures are uniquely volatile threats to the social order.
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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.
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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?
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?
Emerson: Who is He that Shall Control Me?
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-R. W. Emerson