Lorraine Teixeira
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Lorraine Teixeira
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.
The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.
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“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”
— Bob Dylan
You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.
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.
I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say: I made that. It was the only way I saw to make life meaningful.
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.
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
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