Let’s Build It

Image by Peter Sis

We already contain what we most deeply desire. Life, love, inner freedom, connection to all. The more we can realize this, the more we can undertake all things with a sense of abundance. Our inner abundance radiates a sense of worth, value, and ease, of having something to give to the world and enjoying doing so. Without abundance, we can be in the midst of riches and feel like a hungry ghost. — Jack Kornfield

True confidence builds on an idea that stumbling and making an embarrassment of ourselves is normal at the start of anything worthwhile — and no indicator of being destined to fail long-term. Ideally we would see that messing up is a standard feature of the human condition, not a strange failing of our own and won’t ever have to prevent us from a chance to become more competent in the future, since every person whose competence we admire once began from a position of weakness. We learn to get good at things not by never finding them difficult, but by humbly accepting — and identifying — the problems and the pain and gradually working out how to manage them. — Alain de Botton

I assume I have everything needed for an interesting creation already inside me. It just needs to be awakened. That’s why I pick certain images and quotations. That’s the crank that gets the engine started. After that, the building instinct takes over. I don’t need to…