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We often think that we might be helping those we love by not talking about the pain and sorrow. But experience suggests that talking directly about what people are feeling is comforting. It let’s us know our feelings are real and visible. It validates our suffering.
How to Comfort Someone Who Is Hurting
Bruce Lambert
She thought you could find inspiration everywhere:
I heard once about a Yiddish poet who lived in utter poverty and misery, a teenager, who never had seen anything beautiful in his life, and he made splendid poems about vegetables jumping into the soup pot. My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you don’t have to look far away. You have to know how to see.
The Work and Wisdom of Hedda Sterne
austinkleon.com
The actual happening of things is characterized by flow, by something more perfect than consecutiveness—a sort of incessant flowering.
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
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