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To be an artist is to feel life deeply, to tremble with the terrors of everything that trembles.
Maria Popova • Kafka's creative block and the 4 psychological hindrances keeping the talented from manifesting their talent; a physicist on death and the life-force
How boring to spend the whole of my vocational energy trying to figure out if I am choosing the right work. It is of much greater interest to me to talk about how I’m going to do the work with integrity. How am I going to protect dignity as I work? And what truths are calling out to me as I work?
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Freedom is exercised in the confrontation by each other, in the context of an infinitely extensible work of imaginative understanding, of two irreducibly dissimilar individuals. Love is the imaginative recognition of, that is respect for, this otherness.
Midweek pick-me-up: Iris Murdoch on love
“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, a... See more
Have you ever told a lie and then forgot it was a lie? When you tell a story for long enough, you begin to believe it. We adorn ourselves with any number of distractions from self.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
