Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has … - Maria Popova

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We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

Maria Popova

Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.

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Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

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In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these pieces and build new castles.

Castles, Combine, Discipline, Ideas, Order

We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the world. Who we "are" is simply a finely curated catalog of those.

Alive, Collage, Impressions, Inspiration, World

Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.

Coax, Experience, Ideas, Motivational, Order, Stillness

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

Art, Intricate, Presence, Productivity, Rewarding