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Creativity, Love And Blessing
We live in a culture that dreads the entropic inevitability of growing older, treats it like a disease to be cured with potions and regimens, anesthetizes it with botox and silence, somehow forgetting that to grow old at all is a tremendous privilege — one withheld from the vast majority of humans…
— MARIA POPOVA
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In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves. One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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More briefly, the business of philosophy is not to reassure people, but to upset them…
The task of a writer [is] to go forward and share his impressions with his reader. In spite of everything to the contrary, he is not obliged to prove anything.
— Lev Shestov
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“When we bless, we connect ourselves, the sacred, and others in a spirit of spaciousness and unity, love and unobstructedness. When we bless we sound those notes. We release what we can certainly imagine as an energy into the world. And since the world of spirit doesn’t operate with the same laws of scale as our physical world does, the impact…
