If discovery was a color, what would it be? gold maybe?
How to be seriously ambitious about something without being serious?
There are always more things that things can be.
"In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do - like reading a dull, but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you, think mystery, not mastery" (Cameron, The Artist's Way, 21)
This is how idea for daily practice came about. The only thing that makes sense right now is keep this sense of peace and play in process. Every time heaviness, anxiety, doubt come along be aware and empty mind. Time doesn't matter today. The best times are when I don't count time.
"Is the plant complete when it flowers? When it goes to seed? When the seed sprouts? When everything turns to compost? The notion of completion has no basis in Wabi Sabi" (Koren, 50)
That completion insight is so interesting, true. If you just get rid of the notion that something can be completed, you relieve yourself of a lot of anxiety and pressure. And rather think of something as coming from and going towards, of connecting and continuum...
"Each of us has some area of competence no matter how small in which we feel confident - poetry is a way of treating with the rest about which we are unsure - hence the great body of the poetry of love" Carl Andres, from the exhibit "Words" in Marfa
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