A Museum

“You are a museum of everything you have ever loved.”

(via)

Immediately

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
– Seneca

This Makes It Hard To Plan The Day

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

Pope Leo XIV and the Algorithm

“The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us and sometimes even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.”
– Pope Leo XIV

From this speech

Nothing More Altruistic

“The more I think it over,
the more I feel that there is
nothing more truly artistic
than to love people.”
– Vincent van Gogh

Between Stimulus and Response

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
– Viktor Frankl

Marriage Is A Long Conversation

“Marriage as a long conversation. – When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you’re together will be devoted to conversation.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Live In It

“I am not telling you to make the world better. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment.”
– Joan Didion

Act of Communion

“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
― bell hooks

Connection

“Connection is not a transaction; it’s a vibrational field we can tap into on a daily basis in the most mundane of circumstances.”
– Esther Perel

Kinder Sea

“I wish you a kinder sea.”
– Emily Dickinson

The World…

“The World is a Museum of Passion Projects.”

Pile of Good things

“So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.”
– Rainbow Rowell.

One of my favorite quotes. Reminding myself of this as I navigate choppy waters.

The Way

“Finding the way, is the way.”
– Marcus Aurelius

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 is

no self-
I am just

a place
where the

universe
happens
to be
happening

telling 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