“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.” – Lewis Thomas, from The Lives of a Cell

Somethings to consider when you feel change upon you:
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Chuang Tse
“I can’t understand why people are afraid of new ideas, I’m afraid of the old ones.”- John Cage
“Let the body think of the spirit as streaming, pouring, rushing and shining into [...]

“If you give birth to the genius within you, it will free you. If you do not give birth to the genius within you, it will destroy you.” – Jesus, The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas

“God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

‎”The reason art is so valuable is precisely why I can’t tell you how to do it. If there was a map, there’d be no art because art is the act of navigating without a map” – Seth Godin

If there is one book that I would consider “the good book” / highly recommended beyond all else / the book I would grab in a fleeing moment – it would be David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous. Just this past Friday, I learned that he has a new one out – Becoming Animal [...]

At the end of The War of Art: Break Through Your Blocks and Win Your Creative Battles, by Steven Pressfield, he talks about when Krishna instructed Arjuna to do his work as an offering to God:
“Give the act to me
Purged of hope and ego,
Fix your attention on the soul.
Act and do it for me.
“The work [...]

From The War of Art: Break Through Your Blocks and Win Your Creative Battles, by Steven Pressfield:
“Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet. It is the root of more unhappiness than poverty, disease [...] To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were [...]

This via Scott Belsky’s book Making Ideas Happen:
“Our raw curiousity and sense of wonderment fuels our ideas, but bring them to fruition requires a steadfast commitment. … If you stick out the journey, you will have a unique opportunity to make an impact in your world.
“It is not naive or a cliche to say that [...]

‘Tis the season for fortifying and cultivating, lighting and nurturing.
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” – Pietro Aretino
I’ve been churning through a process of refinement and discernment as of late by clearing out all that isn’t fully and deeply what I’ve been waiting for. It feels like a lightening in [...]