Joel Nessim
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Joel Nessim
- A true revelation, it seems to me, will only emerge from stubborn concentration on a solitary problem. I am not in league with inventors or adventurers, nor with travelers to exotic destinations. The surest —also the quickest— way to awake the sense of wonder in ourselves is to look intently, undeterred, at a single object. Suddenly, miraculously, ... See more
“— you know, I've either had a family, a job, something
has always been in the
waybut now
I've sold my house, I've found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I'm going to have a place and
the time to
create.'no baby, if you're going to create
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you're going to create whether you work
16 hours a day i“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations
... See more- Don't be so humble - you are not that great. —Golda Meir
"i think intuitively...not logically"
If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
Richard Rohr
- björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
"Reality is subjective, and there's an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as 'important' only if'tis sober and severe.
Sure and still you're right about your Cheerful Dumb, only they're not so much happy as lobotomized. But your Gloomy Smart are just as ridiculous.
When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to your
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