MERAKI (adj): Pouring yourself wholeheartedly into something, such as cooking, and doing so with soul, creativity and love. [Greek]*
Ella Frances Sanders
In Blake’s sense, a firm persuasion was a form of self-knowledge; it was understood as a result, an outcome, a bounty that comes from paying close attention to an astonishing world and the way each of us is made differently and uniquely for that world.**
John Higgs
Life is best
when poured into
an expressive life.
Whether streams
or oceans of possibility–
A soul must decide.
What matters is
that we find our way to
soulful, wholehearted works.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.^
*Ella Frances Sanders’ Lost In Translation;
**John Higgs’ William Blake vs The World;
^Antoine de Saint Exupéry, quoted in gapingvoid’s blog: When In Doubt, Swim Upstream.
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