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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
~Soren Kierkegaard
"Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation."
~Charles Frankel -
Love and Peace
"Peace: softening what is rigid in our hearts." ~Pema Chodron ( Read more... ) -
Solitude
Do not be afraid to embrace the arms of loneliness ( Read more... ) -
Breath
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
~Anais Nin
“Smile, breathe and go slowly.”
~Thich Nhat Hanh -
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"Sit, be still, let yourself become quiet, and follow your breath. Read a paragraph from something you study and let yourself steep in it."
"One way to sneak the Soul in past the Ego is through compassion."
~ from Baba Ram Dass (BabaRamDass @twitter) -
Three Points
Body impermanent like spring mist;
Mind insubstantial like empty sky;
Thoughts unestablished like breezes in space.
Think about these three points over and over.
~Godrakpa (1170-1249)
from Daily Zen -
Joy in your own richness
You should begin to build up confidence
and joy in your own richness.
That richness is the essence of generosity.
It is the sense of resourcefulness,
that you can deal with whatever is
around you and not feel poverty-stricken.
~Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987) -
Self-Encouragement
Because this journal is about inspiration, I feel it's appropriate to give myself a few short words of encouragement. November is marching forward, and reach 50k words is looking less and less likely, and certainly less enjoyable. I hate myself each moment that I'm not writing, and I dread each moment that I sit down to try again, feeling like I'm ( Read more... ) -
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first frost -
the willow cries
dead leaves
~A. Caouette -
Unmarked Boxes
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round ( Read more... )