Push yourself to the wildest edge of edges…

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic. Tom Robbins

Good Planets

Don’t blow it — good planets are hard to find.Quoted in Time

Elizabeth Gilbert: A different way to think about creative genius

“Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love, muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.” [Source: TED]

Discover Something Wonderful

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk, and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will [...]

Quotes about… Healing

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. Tori Amos

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you [...]

Quotes about… Hummingbirds

The ruby-throated hummingbird is a wonder of migration. Every winter it makes an amazing journey. Some have been known to make a journey of 2500 miles or more, from Alaska to Central America. Because of it, the hummingbird is a symbol for accomplishing that which seems impossible. It will teach you how to find [...]

Quotes about… Crayons

We could learn a lot from a box of crayons:some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors… but they have all learned to live inthe same box. Anonymous

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly [...]

Quotes about… Doors

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you follow your bliss… doors will open [...]

Quotes about… Envelopes

ENVELOPE, n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter. Ambrose Bierce

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? Mark Twain

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. Shana Alexander [...]

Quotes about… Peace

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. Buddha

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. Peace Pilgrim

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. [...]

Quotes about… Two

Love is the harmony of two souls singing together. Gregory J. P. Godek

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any [...]

Quotes about… Wallpaper

We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning “of the spirit” or “inspire.” It’s about letting God’s light shine through us. It’s about a sparkle in people that money can’t buy. It’s an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to [...]

Quotes about… Kitchen

Have you any idea how many kids it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, “What light?” and two more to say, “I didn’t turn it on. Erma Bombeck

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Harry S. Truman
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Quotes about… Leap

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes De Mille

Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November;
All the rest have thirty-one
Save February, she alone
Hath eight days and a score
Til leap year gives her one day more.

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Quotes by… Jackson Pollock

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. Jackson Pollock

It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. Jackson Pollock

Painting is self-discovery. Every [...]