Says Stephen Nachmanovitch

I find this very meaningful so I repost this:

Education, business, media, politics, AND ABOVE ALL THE FAMILY, the very institutions that might be the instruments for expanding human expressiveness, collude to induce conformism, to keep things on a humdrum level.  So do our everyday habits of doing or seeing.

Reality as we know it becomes conditioned by the tacit assumptions we come to take for granted after innumerable subtle learning experiences in daily life.

Thus creativity is usually the ability to see through those tacit assumptions to what is in front of our noses.

Failing can be your success

What you call “success” is usually your worst failure.

That is not to think that failure means invariably success…

What difference does it really make?

Writing or not writing…?

Sometimes it´s really painful to realize that whatever I write
makes no real difference.

Yet…

It is meaningless to write, but it is even more meaningless Not to write.

Foemina

The women were lingering,
contemplating
their image.

The windows
were silently
contemplating
their absence

Trapped and cheated

She writes incessantly.

Whatever she says is
seemingly right
and true.

You can sense wisdom in her lines.

You can sense a strong yearning to reach out.

And yet…

She is a perfect stranger to her words.

After reading her, you feel estranged too…
You have the eery feeling
of being left out of yourself.

Where…?

Where can you go and find Tao not to exist?

Where can you go and find that Words cannot be proved?

The Tao is obscured by our inadequate understanding
and words are obscured by flowery expressions.

Let us play!

I wrote this post some time ago, but I thought I would re-post it as I find it meaningful.

As I nowadays have big issues with linear time, I kind of feel ageless, turning five each and every moment. It`s great and unbelievable.

I never realized before that life can be a discontinuously-continuous surprise each instant.

To my amazement, there is no such thing as boredom anymore. No worries left. Yes, it might sound like a perplexing way to put it, but instead of me “living”, I am sustained and “lived” by an Eternal state of surprise. Frustrations, resentments, disappointments, regrets and projections are dead. Loss is dead too. Even so my sense of shortage. Thought and fears have been replaced by a secretly simple but ”all-encompassing” joy and gratefulness. This grateful Joy is so unobtrusively permeating every second, every breath is so real.

You can feel it, almost touch it, this Joy is so uncalculated and spontaneous, wise and unpredictable, so tempestuously creative.

It bursts into laughter and childish appreciation, but this inner mighty cheerfulness is so pervasively aware, empathic and lovable - it knows too what sorrow and hardship and suffering is about…

 So…

 Let´s play a while!

Irreverent and happy!

Emma says:

I will be inside with a ridiculous grin on my face, being wickedly creative day and night and eating a great breakfast every day with hazelnut coffee, living the life I was born to lead, irreverent and happy, childishly so!

(http://emmacapell.wordpress.com)

Why is yearning so praised?

Truthseeker247 says:
Yearning, otherwise known as motivation, seems to be PRAISED – yet, is this not (one of) the forces that makes us so miserable?

Me:
It is as you say.

Yearning entails that we are miserable now, that´s quite obvious.

What is most upsetting is that tacitly, we are almost expected to be miserable – that is, obsessed with becoming, obsessed with our personal futile striving, which in fact is running from illusion to another illusion, never reaching anything but the initial frustration in different guises.

Running away in circles not coming anywhere seems to be our legacy.

To be unhappy, but running a senseless race for a later retribution which will never come, is called respectability.

Act on this dichotomy

You have plenty of time but also have no time.

So either you act on this knowledge, or you find an excuse.

Keep in mind though,
“Not Now” can be the shortest way to hell.
As much as wrongly chosen “Now” can be…

Choice means failure!

Don´t choose!

Act

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