Lorraine Teixeira
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Lorraine Teixeira
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that
... See moreWinston Churchill, a man who was very prone to depression, said: “If you are going through hell, keep going.” This advice implies that everything, the good and the bad, is temporary, like life itself.
Francesc Miralles • Hope, the secret weapon of philosopher Byung-Chul Han
So the point is to take the work seriously but you don’t take yourself too seriously. There’s a riff about this in Stephen Pressfield’s War of Art, where he talks about how amateurs are too precious with their work: “The professional has learned, however, that too much love can be a bad thing. Too much love can make him choke. The seeming detachmen
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.
You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.
It is said that we each are waves, momentarily cresting out of It All. How precious, then, to witness waves holding waves in loving regard as they form and return (form and return, form and return). The process of reabsorption back into the mystery from which we emerged can, naturally, be an exquisitely intense process. Decades may have been spent
... See moreA finite game, where the goal is to win, can easily become a serious, grave affair, devoid of fun and levity. An infinite game, where the goal is nothing more—or less—than to continue to play, lends itself to sincerity. Confusing an infinite game for a finite game can be a subtle source of suffering in life.
What kills hope, according to Byung-Chul Han, is not despair; on the contrary, despair is its starting point, the beginning of the journey. As he explains in the prelude to the book, the opposite of hope is fear.
Hope, the secret weapon of philosopher Byung-Chul Han
The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.
Sara Hooker • Tweet
Perhaps the most hopeful thing about being alive is that we are never finished and complete. Perhaps the most exasperating is that we are never entirely new.