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Raven Moon
You don’t need to be good at something for it to be meaningful; it is meaningful because it is a piece or expression of YOU!
21 best ideas in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay on Self Reliance (via justin murphy)
Most people do not trust their own beliefs. The essence of genius is simply to trust yourself—to infer that whatever seems most true in your heart is most true in reality—and for everybody else, too, despite whatever they may claim.
There is hardly anything more painful
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The case for making art when the world is on fire | Amie McNee | TEDxManchester
youtu.beThe art of creativity can extinguish the fires of our burning world. Art is expression, it is love, it is healing, it is everything that makes the world beautiful. In fact, I would argue that the world would suffer more without it. Music is art, gardening is art, baking and jewelry making is art, and creation is art. Where would we be without the things that fuel our souls? In a world designed to keep us addicted to our phones, to rob us of our attention, art is rebellion and art is change; art is activism, because you are using your voice, taking up space, and reclaiming your power. Art is beautiful, art is meaningful, and art is powerful. Your art can be the antidote to someone’s pain or their strife, yet you are keeping it to yourself. Art is not selfish; keeping it to yourself is.