Category Archives: artist
If you don’t know what you love, don’t worry (be happy!)
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.” – Buddha “Peace I leave with you; my peace I … Continue reading
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“no” is really an okay word to use
“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” — Tony Blair “Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “If you do what … Continue reading
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dreaming with tom joad
“Man, he lives in the jerks– baby born an’ a man dies, an’ that’s a jerk– gets a farm an’ loses his farm, an’ that’s a jerk. Woman, it’s all one flow, like a stream, little eddies, little waterfalls, but … Continue reading
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“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” — Joseph Campbell
“Life consists in learning to live on one’s own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one’s own—be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to … Continue reading
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having a dance with grace
“Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.” — Saul Bellow Sometimes there “ain’t no words” for the things that I experience. Not that they are somehow more special, or … Continue reading
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the sacred breath
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” — Arundhati Roy “Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.” … Continue reading
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