Showing posts with label creative work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creative work. Show all posts

Saturday, March 19, 2011

What is your Love language?

"Whatever we do, whatever our job, it can be a vessel through which we teach the message of salvation: that the Son of God is innocent, and we are all Sons of God. Kindness to Him transforms the World. We don't necessarily teach this verbally, but rather non-verbally. The problem most people have is that they're more concerned with the mode of their expression than with what they're seeking to express. That's because they don't know what they want to express. This generation, this culture, is full of people who want desperately to write a story, but for all the wrong reasons. I meet people who want to be in the spotlight, but have no idea what they would say if it was pointed at them. This is a fraudulent posture. It means we want the record contract more than the satisfaction of making music. The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled place, love, God, what ever you want to call it, is lacking integrity. It diminishes us. It reduces inspiration to mere sales."
- Marianne Williamson, pg. 201 in "A Return to Love"

Monday, April 5, 2010

Manhattan is where she grew.


Sunday, February 14, 2010

"Drinking heavily, you abandon people, and they abandon you - and you abandon yourself- it's a form of partial self-murder."








I loved this article! I've always thought the romantic image we have of the drugged up/alcoholic-artistic-genius is a fraud - I refuse to burn myself out. This isn't a sprint, this is a marathon. The most creative you will ever be is when you are sober. Enlightenment comes from being present in the moment, substances create an illusion of the 'moment.'