Only that day dawns to which we are awake.* Henry David Thoreau
Creativity is not doing something, it is looking through whatever we do with the eye of the sleepless watcher, it is remaining through whatever we say an uncritically receptive listener.** James Carse
Slow down, Be quiet, Open up, Hang around, Ask questions, Notice 2.0: the more you study delight, the more delight there is to study^ – Still, I miss so much, I’ll keep trying.
The test of a student is not how much he knows, but how much he wants to know.^^
Many people live half lives, turning the rheostat down to a very dim version of who and what they really are.* Jean Houston
And then the knowledge comes to me that I have space within me for a second, timeless, larger life.** Rainer Maria Rilke
It doesn’t feel like a half life, Just life, Until we notice, Out of the corner of our eye, A burning bush, And, wandering over, We find our holy ground.
Without direct, positive, informational knowledge, it is impossible to live at all. Without apophatic knowledge, it is impossible to be human.^
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.* Howard Thurman
It’s not what we don’t know but what we do know that limits us.** James Carse
Our best guide will be one who knows that they do not know more than they do know: Amen, let the adventure continue.
What I actually saw as my problem is actually a crucial resource.* Stephen Gilligan
By trying to order the garden of our lives according to some design alien to it, we find ourselves at war with its innate exuberance, its non-stop self-transformation … Since we can only be as we are seen, whoever looks at us plays a part in creating us and the world we live in.** James Carse
I had not seen all the ideas I had as being a problem, It was someone else who saw them in this way – I became increasingly reticent until someone else saw me quite differently, Encouraging me to pursue what I deeply loved – Then my problem became a resource that changed the direction of my life.
I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonancy within our innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.^
To be generative, you cannot only be serious. You’ve got to be able to play.* Robert Dilts
Everything changes once you see the universe is designed for abundance and not for scarcity. It not only changes the condition of your life but it changes you.** Erwin McManus
To make less with more, Only be serious, To make more with less, Add some play.
Play is for all-the-time, Not just for when you are not working, See how wasteful serious has made us, But playfulness lets nothing go to waste.
There’s often doubt. Giving someone the benefit of that doubt enables us to move forward, and that requires us to realise that our doubt might be unfounded. Systems that assume goodwill create possibility, connection and utility far easier than those that don’t.* Seth Godin
I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.* Carl Jung
a story is an account of a character, in a set of circumstances, facing choices, who undergoes change** Bernadette Jiwa
To explore your life-in-all-its-fullness, You must commit to a cause – Whatever you want it to be; Perhaps you feel you are already doing the things that matter most – Family and work and such – Though, perchance, you are sensing a greater capacity within your self, and are sensing an urge to stretch out into this.
The ancient Greeks called this urge entelechy: the dynamic purpose that drives us towards realising our essential self^ – The future is calling and because of this you must …
Time is where eternity unfolds. The contemplative has always recognised the morning as the time to welcome the new day with a sense of creative expectation and openhandedness.** John O’Donohue
When you dance on the edge of infinity, there’s always enough … because you aren’t taking opportunity from anyone else, you’re creating it.^ Seth Godin
Writer-who-draws Austin Kleon divulges how The day is the only unit of time that I can really get my head around. Seasons change, weeks are completely human-made, but the day has a rhythm. The sun goes up; the sun goes down. I can handle that.^^
A life of 80 years may contain 4,174 weeks or 950 months, but has an incredible 29,220 days, Each potentially involving eternity and infinity, Available to us to be creative with as we dare to imagine; When we do the right things at the right time, we produce beauty, and happiness follows.
Of course, we can get it all wrong – I do on too many days: We know where we are but are we really sure we’re not lost?*^ – But another day is not long in coming, and we can play again.
James Clear asks a good question: How should you measure your days?^* – How might we begin our day if we want to measure creativity or beauty or goodness, rather than hours put in or emails deleted or distractions found to pass the time?; And what is our wisdom from yesterday that we bring into today, and what are we discovering today that we will take into tomorrow?
The two ways of seeing are that of the ego and the soul. The ego is the fixed earth’s agent in us; the soul is the heaven’s. The ego is concerned with centres, the soul lives on the margins, circumferences, horizons. Limitlessness is the natural element of the soul, a dread foe of the ego.*^ James Carse
If you’re serious about changing yourself and your life, you must change your environment.* Ben Hardy
Yearning comes with the territory of living.** Jean Houston
We look for the ideal environments, Often unaware that we carry the possibilities of new territories within us; We may have to change an environ as a final option, but, Before we jump, We may want to play with our talents and energies and values a little more, And see what happens – Yes, where we are has limitations, but limitation is the beginning of innovation: waiting for the world to get things just right is exhausting and frustrating, while taking responsibility for what we might be able to contribute or lead can be energising and fun.^
I must know that I am, at least in part, the very thing I am seeking.* Richard Rohr
Consciousness begins when brains gain the power – the simple power – of telling a story.** Antonio Damasio
We are more than a bodies with lists – What we have, What we want, What we’ve done, What we have yet to do, What we are free from having to do, The places we have been, The people we know – We tell stories, and this makes things far far more interesting; Our success in life is not to be found in a list, But in our ability to create a compelling story.
THIN|SILENCE 
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