Author and writing teacher Julia Cameron on what it takes to improve:
“It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.”
Source: The Artist’s Way
Writer Jeanette Winterson on the connection between art and an open mind:
“Most of us spend a lot of time censoring everything that we see and hear. Does it fit with our world picture? And if it doesn’t, how can we shut it out, how can we ignore it, how can we challenge it? We are continually threatened in life, it’s true. But once you are alone with a book, and it’s also true with a picture or with music, all those defenses drop and you can enter into a quite different space where you will learn to think differently about yourself.”
Source: Women at Work Vol II: Interviews from the Paris Review
“Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.“
Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman with some advice for life:
“Fall in love with some activity, and do it!
Continue reading “Explore the world”“Never let perfection get in the way of good enough.” – Casey Neistat
“People are always asking me if I’ll ever get tired of shooting the mountains, I don’t think I have an answer to that. The things that are around you every day are always the easiest to take for granted.
Awesome. Beautiful. Majestic. Sublime. All the big cliché words fall a little bit short.
There’s a loneliness that always surprises me. It reminds you how small you are. How small your worries and problems are. I think we all need to be reminded that from time to time.” – Peter McKinnon
A parable from priest and therapist Anthony de Mello on the stories we tell ourselves:
Continue reading “Who are you?”Dance like nobody is watching, and take a photo as if you’ll never get another “like.”
“I have a lot of proof that the world is conspiring to make me happy.” – Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights
Documentary filmmaker Valarie Kaur on listening:
“Deep listening is an act of surrender. We risk being changed by what we hear.
Continue reading “Deep listening”
Hannes van Eeden 