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Children are the wildish nature,
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Take a current problem. Strip it of all the superimposed layers of your reactions. The first and most handy layer is that of rationalization, that of “proving” that others, or situations, are at fault, not your innermost conflicts which make you adopt the wrong attitude to the actual problem that confronts you. The next layer might be anger, resent
... See moreEva Pierrakos • The Undefended Self: Living the Pathwork
Remember, your artist is a child. Find and protect that child. Learning to let yourself create is like learning to walk. The artist child must begin by crawling. Baby steps will follow and there will be falls—yecchy first paintings, beginning films that look like unedited home movies, first poems that would shame a greeting card. Typically, the rec
... See moreJulia Cameron • The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
Another way that is just as effective is to create time in your imagination to meet the child’s needs. One woman spends time with each of her three inner kids daily, treating them much as she would actual children those ages. She bathes and holds the baby and takes the teenager shopping. Each of the inner children can be seen going through the norm
... See moreJasmin Lee Cori MS LPC • The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
For parent-figures reading this, it’s important to remind yourself that children exceed us in their connection to their intuition and their core Self. As adults, we easily get lost in our own steady stream of thoughts. Children are still highly intuitive, their world is in flux, still being formed. In providing a secure and open space for your chil
... See moreNicole LePera • How To Do The Work: Recognise Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
we cannot choose the circumstances of our childhoods, let alone the circumstances of our great-grandparents’ childhoods—but many factors are within our control. We can provide ourselves with the nurturing we may not have received as children. We can learn to give ourselves secure bonds and the ability to create a sense of safety.
Nicole LePera • How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
Soberingly, despite all our advances in technology and material resources, we are not much more advanced in the art of delivering emotionally healthy childhoods than generations before us. The number of breakdowns, inauthentic lives and broken souls shows no marked signs of decline. We are failing to offer one another tolerable childhoods not becau
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
that children exceed us in their connection to their intuition and their core Self.