In Asia and the Middle East, as well as in an early example of Western manuscript painting, the words and painting together made the whole picture.*
Jan Steward

Carry around a pad of white paper
and a fine black pen, and
everywhere becomes a place to doodle.

I enjoyed standing in line waiting
to be served, even got a chat about doodling
with someone.

*Corita Kent and Jan Steward’s Learning by Heart.

In Greek the word for ‘the beautiful’ is to kalon.  It is related to the word kalein which includes the notion of ‘call.’  When we experience beauty, we feel called.*
John O’Donohue

*John O’Donohue’s Divine Beauty.

Thriving is where the impetus to survive meets both the craving for beauty and the need to love.*
Alex McManus

*Alex McManus’ Makers of Fire.

Greatness often comes from developing a superpower that adapts to the blow that almost killed you.*
Susan Cain

*Susan Cain’s Bittersweet.

Choosing what we rehearse is a way of choosing who we will become.*
Seth Godin

The colour from my
“Find Hone Use” doodle had
bled through the paper, So
I thought to use it as part of
doodling about what lies on the far side
of our daily practices.

*Seth Godin’s blog: Memories of memories.

A ritual is an enactment of a myth.  By participating in a ritual, you are participating in a myth.*
Joseph Campbell

This is my story
and my ritual –
Each day to read and journal
and doodle and blog and
meet with people.

Unfolding surprise and
stirring imagination, so that
3,500 posts later, the garden
is growing.

What an amazing world, what
amazing people,
What possibilities.

*Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers’ The Power of Myth.

For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers.  The truth – that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire.  Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
Viktor Frankl

*Jonah Paquette’s Awestruck.

What is it we are questing for?  It is the fulfilment of that which is potential in each of us.  Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfilment your gift to the world, which is your self.
Joseph Campbell

*Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey.

The world is alive, generous,
and waiting patiently for us
to figure it out.*
Tom De Blasis

*Claudia Bedrick and Maria Popova’s A Velocity of Being.

The empty part of the drawer is what makes it a useful tool.

Same goes for a filing cabinet, a toolbox and a calendar.

Slack is underrated.*
Seth Godin

*Seth Godin’s blog: Overstuffed.