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In Praise Of Artists
You either walk inside your story and own it, or you stand outside your own story and hustle for your worthiness.
— Brene Brown
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“When the soul wishes to experience something, she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image.”
— Meister Eckhart, (born 1260)
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THE DREAM
“Because our innermost truth continually needs to liberate herself from the lie we live, and because we won’t allow her such freedom, she waits patiently until the most quiet hour of sleep, when everything stops. Then, before we are even aware of what she is up to, she exposes her beauty and flies naked into the forest of images her wild heart throws up. There she performs a witch’s dance that fills us with awe, wonder, fear, passion, and truth. Should this awaken our heart and open our eyes, we find she has fled. We go looking to find her again in the labyrinth of images she left us with. But all we come across, if we persist and don’t get lost, is a truth, lying right out in the open, that we never saw before.”
— William R. Stimson, 2021
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“To be purposeful is not to be goal oriented, but to seek to reconnect to the source of one’s life.”
