Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty
Inspiration and Stimulations for Your Vagus Nerve: AKA: YOUR GUT FEELINGS
by Bradley McDevitt · updated 1mo ago
Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty
- 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 .
from Movement & Psychology Workshop by Flynn Disney
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From Rafe Kelly
Silvio Castelletti on Substack
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“Style is in no way a decoration as some people believe; it is not even a matter of technique; it is as color is with painters — a quality of vision.”
—Marcel Proust
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"I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." — Duke Ellington
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Tom White on Substack
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“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."
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- Adrienne Rich wrote, “I do know that art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage.”
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- “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 Sontagfrom Poetic Outlaws on Substack
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“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
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