Perception and Creativity
“When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.”
–Madeleine L’Engle (American Writer, 1918-2007)
“Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art (Wheaton Literary Series)” (Madeleine L’Engle)
Creative Information
(Picture courtesy of New York Times)
“The original root of the word “information” is the Latin word informare, which means to fashion, shape, or create, to give form to. Information is an idea that has been given a form, such as the spoken or written word. It is a means of representing an image or thought so that it can be communicated from one mind to another rather than worrying about all the information afloat in the world, we must ask ourselves what matters to us, what do we want to know. It’s having ideas and learning to deal with issues that is important, not accumulating lots and lots of data.”
–Theodore Roszak (American Social Thinker, Critic and Writer, 1933- 2011)
The World Is A Magic Glass
“Each heart is a world. You find all within yourself that you find without. The world that surrounds you is the magic glass of the world within you.”
–Johann Kaspar Lavater (Swiss Physiognomist, Theologian and Writer, 1741-1801)
Personal Transformation
“I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what the art of archery means: a profound and far-reaching contest of the archer with himself. Perhaps you have hardly noticed it yet, but you will feel it very strongly when you meet your friends and acquaintances again in your own country: things will no longer harmonize as before. You will see with other eyes and measure with other measures. It has happened to me too, and it happens to all who are touched by the spirit of this art.”
–Eugen Herrigel (German Philosopher and Daishakyôdô Practitioner, 1884-1955)
Tailor Your Attitudes
“You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.”
–Zig Ziglar (American Self-help Author and Speaker, 1926-)
The Value of the Intuitive Leap
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion – these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
–Jerome Bruner (American Psychologist, 1915-)
Constantly Rejecting the Subjective
There’s more than one way to look at the world. It’s unfortunate that more and more people reject the all important inner world that give us color, meaning and purpose.
“Subjectivity and objectivity commit a series of assaults on each other during a human life out of which the first one suffers the worse beating.”
–André Breton (French Surrealist, 1889-1966)
Why Quote?
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
–Isaac D’Israeli (English Historian, Critic and Father of a Future British Prime Minister, 1766-1848)
Another Side of Genius
“Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.”
–Madame de Staël (a.k.a. Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein, French Social Leader and Writer, 1766-1817)
“Corinne, or Italy (Oxford World’s Classics)” (Madame de Staël)
Mental Silence
“Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.”
–Vernon Howard (American Spiritual Teacher and Author, 1935-1992)
