Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty
Inspiration and Stimulations for Your Vagus Nerve: AKA: YOUR GUT FEELINGS
Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty
Inspiration and Stimulations for Your Vagus Nerve: AKA: YOUR GUT FEELINGS
“If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.”
-Rainier Marie Rilke
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
"Art is not a product but a ritual of the psyche, weaving meaning from the human experience AI cannot touch."
-Bradley McDevitt
-R. W. Emerson
”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.