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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
In true power, you love freely because you do not fear rejection or pain. You give of yourself because you know that rejection is a sign of the other's inability to receive what you are. You do not compete with another because competition implies shame and denies the mastery of both of you. And you know that ultimately you're competing with yourself. True power cooperates selflessly, knowing that it can't be taken advantage of. It forgives unconditionally because you flow effortlessly through life and because you acknowledge your role in co-creating every event in your life. You blame no one, not even yourself, because you are following Spirit in every moment. You do not judge anyone or anything because you know that judgement is based on shame. Instead you look to Spirit for what is true in the moment. And from this perspective, you see everything as Spirit-in-expression, working through personalities. You may not see the perfection of the expression of others, but you know that you're not their judge, so you just give them the room they need without becoming embroiled in their expression. If suffering comes into your life, you do not avoid it, but experience it and honor your creativity for having manifested it.
An Ascension Handbook
Tony Stubbs
Conviction by feeling is not always so vague as it seems. Some of the things to which man clings, calling them felt truths, are so called only because he is not able to adduce tangible proofs to their reality. But frequently, if he applies himself to a thorough examination of all the concrete and theoretical testimonies by which he has persuaded himself to believe certain things, he finds that subconsciously he has really accumulated quite solid structures of logical justification. Intelligence often later supplies proofs of what intuition has long since suspected and proposed
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
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