“Finding the way, is the way.”
– Marcus Aurelius
The Way
To Create
“To create is to live twice.”
– Albert Camus
Your Purpose
“Your purpose is not the thing you do. It’s the thing that happens in others when you do what you do.”
– Dr. Caroline Leaf
Love is Never Wasted
“Love is never wasted,
For its value does not rest upon reciprocity.”
– C. S. Lewis
Sides Of The Mountain
“It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”
– Robert M. Pirsig
(via)
No Self
“I tell myself
there isno self-
I am justa place
where theuniverse
happens
to be
happeningtelling itself
through me.”– John Brehm
What We Love In Common
“…noticing what we love in common, and studying that, might help us survive.”
— Ross Gay
Conclave Certainty Scene
I watched Conclave a few days ago and this speech on certainty stuck with me.
“Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery and therefore no need for faith.”
Nick Cave on Hope
“Hopefulness is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion.”
– Nick Cave
Givers
“The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they are being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.”
– Seth Godin
(This sums up our CreativeMornings Clubs hosts)
What Are We To Do
“I suppose,
is to hope the world
keeps its balance;
what we are to do, however,
with our hearts
waiting and watching—truly
I do not know.”
– Mary Oliver
Make Differently
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
― David Graeber
Bravery
“No one ever tells you that bravery feels like fear.”
– Mary Kate Teske
When Asked To Do A Project..
“Whenever I get asked to do a project, I always think of it as an opportunity to promote my values.”
– Rick Owens
I think the same thing when I give a talk, like this last weekend, at WECode Harvard.
Destruction and Renewal
“Destruction and renewal are part of the same cycle. Indigenous knowledge has always understood this. It’s not about avoiding collapse-it’s about preparing for regeneration.”
– Mellisa K.Nelson
A Confession Of Character
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just So You Know
Just so you know–
everything in the entire
universe is always about love.
And when it is not about love,
it’s about the absence of love.
Hope this makes sense.
– Unknown
There Are A Hundred Paths
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier?”
– Mary Oliver
The Antidote to Doom
“The anditode to doom is curiosity.”
– Ezra Klein
Darkness Of The Womb
“What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb but the darkness of the womb?
What if our America is not dead but a country that is waiting to be born?
What if the the story of America is one long labor?”
– Valarie Kaur
Notice
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Flourishing
“All flourishing is mutual.”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nowhere to go but up
“It’s so freeing and beautiful in a way, to have a great failure. There’s nowhere to go but up.”
– David Lynch
Build A New Model
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
—Buckminster Fuller