Quote for Today: Idries Shah
Many things which are called ‘secrets’ are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them. ―Idries Shah
Quote for Today: Kate Jacobs
Seeing a pattern doesn’t mean you know how to pull it all together. Take baby steps: don’t focus on the folks whose skills are far beyond your own. When …
Quote for Today: Frank Herbert
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and …
Quote for Today: Friedrich Nietzsche
A man has no ears for that which he cannot access through experience. To take an extreme case, suppose a book contains only incidents which lie outside the range of …
Drawing from the Subconscious: Metamorphic Fairies from Synkroniciti
We often limit our creativity to the fields in which we are trained. Can exploring new territory enrich our experience? Last fall I was attending a concert, a lovely performance, while exhausted and …
Quote for Today: G.K. Chesterton
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. —G.K. Chesterton
Quote for Today: Edward Norton
I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that …
Quote for Today: Sir Edmund Hillary
Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the …
Quote for Today: Utah Phillips
I didn’t know what exhausted me emotionally until that moment, and I realized that the experience of being a soldier, with unlimited license for excess, excessive violence, excessive sex, was …
Voice, Language and Belonging: Renee Liang’s Chinglish
Children of immigrants often feel as if they belong nowhere, that no one comprehends their unique voice. The language and customs of their parents homeland may be confining, unfamiliar and …