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Creative thinking has always been, and will always be, a central part of what makes life worth living. Life as a creative thinker can bring not only economic rewards, but also joy, fulfillment, purpose, and meaning. Children deserve nothing less.
Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick, Ken Robinson
In short, I consider perseverance lawful. It is the single best guarantor, barring extreme countervailing conditions (which do exist), of personal deliverance. I received this insight from the work of twentieth-century spiritual philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949). Gurdjieff constantly pushed his students to surpass their limits of perceived strength.
The Metaphysics of Persistence
𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳
The warrior’s approach is to say “yes” to life: “yea” to it all. Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
A Joseph Campbell Companion
Joseph Campbell
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