Lindsey Lincoln
@magpiemoments
Lindsey Lincoln
When we are in flow, we often experience a state of self-transcendence: the inner critic’s needling voice dies away, our habitual worries and self-consciousness fade, and we feel at one with the moment, with ourselves, and with our environment.
James Doty • Mind Magic
When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.
Playing is the whole point
If your life is cluttered, your creativity will be too.
If you are unfocused, your creative expression will be too.
If your brain is overstimulated, your ideas won’t have enough oxygen to breathe.
If your self-worth is tied to your last post, painting, or paycheck, then creativity will always feel like a rigged game.
But winn... See more
If your life is cluttered, your creativity will be too.
If you are unfocused, your creative expression will be too.
If your brain is overstimulated, your ideas won’t have enough oxygen to breathe.
If your self-worth is tied to your last post, painting, or paycheck, then creativity will always feel like a rigged game.
But winn... See more
Anna Seirian • The unbearable weight of trusting your creativity without knowing if it will work
Viewing creativity as the gravity point around which everything else orbits is something we have to start practicing if we care about our sanity and keeping creation a sustainable long-term practice.
WE SHOULD ALL BE DOING LESS
but, to practice the mind ... it is infinitely more difficult to wrangle the maelstrom of thoughts and feelings and fragments. it requires diligence to cut and rearrange and polish until it glows. to bring order and shape to the pile of spaghetti inside my skull - this is my practice.
01 | practicing being a magpie
our phones on the middle
of the table
like candles
like altars
like tiny gods
we are trying not to worship
of the table
like candles
like altars
like tiny gods
we are trying not to worship
