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Lewis Hyde published a beautiful dot-connecting book in 1983 called The Gift, which tackles the elusive subject of what Hyde calls “the commerce of the creative spirit.”
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
“The imagination creates the future,” writes Lewis Hyde, professor and author of the book The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World .1
walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
I want to argue a paradox that the myth asserts: that the origins, liveliness, and durability of cultures require that there be space for figures whose function is to uncover and disrupt the very things that cultures are based on.
Lewis Hyde • Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
Lewis Hyde portrays gift economies in general: “The only essential is this: the gift must always move”—that is, people must keep passing it on. To treat a gift correctly is thus to “allow [ourselves] to become a channel for its current.”34
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
a garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
Myths and fairy tales are profound communicators of wisdom in very subtle ways.
John O'Donohue • Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World
Man and His Symbols,
Stuart Wilde • Sixth Sense: Including the Secrets of the Etheric Subtle Body
The frontier between what you want out of the world and what the world wants out of you.
On Being • David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough
in spite of all their disruptive behavior, tricksters are regularly honored as the creators of culture.