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Courage To Create
When she (Marion Woodman) was at school she did a painting where the sky was green and the earth blue. And the teacher told her off and said it wasn’t correct.
She said she couldn’t paint anything for many many years after that….anyone who is experimenting with their creativity has met people like that… one of the biggest things to overcome is the critic. And sometimes the brutal inner critic or judge or admonishing editor within ourselves is even harder to overcome than the outer critic…
— Jon Wilson
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“The best thing for turbulence of the spirit, is learning.” It’s the only thing that never goes wrong. You may grow old and tremble…you may watch at night listening to the mess of your veins, you may miss your only love and you may lose your money because of a monster; you can see the world around you, devastated by crazy dangerous, or know that your honor is trampled in the sewers of the most vile spirits. You can only do one thing in such conditions: learn. “
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them —…
