Sara Campbell
@tinyrevver
i never give up
Sara Campbell
saracampbell.co
“Manifestation tries to bypass the work. Coherence makes the work unnecessary.”
I eventually learned to treat each solitary writing session at home the same way I treat a live performance. In other words, I learned to treat myself with the same care and respect I give to an audience. This was not a trivial lesson. These rituals and preparations function to discharge and clear obscurations and nervous doubts, to invoke our
... See moreStephen Nachmanovitch • Free Play
I read a David Lynch book about meditation when I was like 16, and I didn’t realize how influential it was until I got older and started to realize that I was doing the technique he talks about automatically. It was called Catching the Big Fish or something, but the idea is, you close your eyes and let all the ideas go through your head. You don’t... See more
The Creative Independent • On navigating the tension between physical and digital realms
Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -
We train our focus on beauty here or there—this poem, that architecture—because it is easier than bearing witness to our own story. We begin to gravitate not toward beauty but toward illusion. In this state, you are not approaching what you seek. You are running from your own face. But this is not the way of wonder. Wonder requires a person not to
... See moreCole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
I think psychologically real stakes don’t come from property, equity, or any other legible capital type. They arise from feeling reasonably necessary in the live story of the world.
Venkatesh Rao • Venkatesh Rao (@contraptions)
This is a field in which one is challenged to act; it is your actions alone that define you.