ACreativeLife

Paths . . .

"I dreamed a thousand new paths . . . I woke and walked my old one."

                Chinese Proverbs

People . . .

"People come into your life and people leave it . . . you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you."

                Orlando Bloom - British Actor

To See . . .

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

                Paul Gaugin

The Sight Of The Stars . . .

"For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."

               Vincent van Gogh

Try . . .

"Try and fail, but don't fail to try."

                 Stephen Kaqqwa

Success . . .

"How can they say my life is not a succcess.  Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"

                 Logan P. Smith

Good Luck . . .

"All of us have bad luck and good luck.  The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

              Robert Collier

Pick My Left Pocket . . .

"Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare my right - it holds my golden time!"

                Oliver Wendell Holmes

Time . . .

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."

                William Penn

Creativity Is . . .

"Creativity is discontent translated into arts."

             Eric Hoffer

Zen . . .

To be free from the noise,
I built a little thatched cottage
Far away in the depth of the mountains.
Wandering here and there I carry no thought.
When spring comes I watch the birds;
In summer I bathe in the running stream;
In autumn I climb the highest peaks;
During the winter I am warming up in the sun.
Thus I enjoy the real flavor of the seasons.
Let the sun and the moon revolve by themselves!
When I have time I read the sutras,
When I am tired I sleep on my straw bed.
The meaning of the teaching is
Profound and vast like the ocean.
When I reveal it in my brush-work,
Its merits are limitless.
Should I explain this secret teaching to you
The solid mountain, I am afraid, would blow away.

             Shih t'ao (1641-1717) - From DailyZen.com

Defeat . . .

"Defeat is not the worst of failures.  Not to have tried is the true failure."

                George E. Woodbury

Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.
Better than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.
It is better to conquer yourself
Than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.

Dhammapada - from DailyZen

Treasure House . . .

"My teacher said to me, “The treasure house within you contains everything,and you are free to use it.You don’t need to seek outside.”"

 Dazhu (487-593) from DailyZen

Creativity . . .

"Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness."

               Julia Cameron - Author of The Artist's Way

No Great Thing . . .

"No great thing is created suddenly."

                Epicetus

Creativity . . .

"Another word for creativity is courage."

               George Prince

Creativity . . .

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

               Erich Fromm

Math . . .

"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."

                Calvin Trillin

Intuitive Mind . . .

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.  We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

 Albert Einstein

Imagination . . .

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

                Michelangelo

Seeing . . .

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

                 Henry David Thoreau

I Am Imagination . . .

"I am imagination.  I can see what the eyes cannot see.  I can hear what the ears cannot hear.  I can feel what the heart cannot feel."

                Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Imaginiation . . .

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

                Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Change . . .

"What you are through changing, you are through."

               Bruce Barton

Vision . . .

"It takes someone with the vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience.  Someone with the courage to live his dreams."

               Les Brown

April . . .

"April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers."

              Edna St. Vincent Millay

Faith & Doubt . . .

"Faith and doubt are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve."

                 Lillian Smith

Learn The Rules . . .

"You have to learn the rules of the game.  And then you have to play better than anyone else."

               Albert Einstein - German-born American Physicist, 1879-1955

Doubt . . .

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

               Kahlil Gibran

Miraculous . . .

"The purpose of the miraculous is to teach us to see the miraculous everywhere."

                St. Augustine - from 1001 Meditations by Mike George