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When we are most affected by the arts, whether through participation or observation, we experience the sublime…

During these moments, we are not thinking; in fact, we are most empty of our thoughts. All of our attention focuses on the present moment.

Artists and scientists both, that allow themselves to dwell in these moments of mental stillness, often begin to feel a larger interconnection with all things around them—their sense of self begins to fade.

In a very deep sense, creativity and the sublime, through the arts and sometimes through the sciences, act as a gateway towards a depth within ourselves.

- Jeff Lieberman
on Arresting Stillness: A Photographic Art at Integral Life
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Current neuroscience research confirms what creatives intuitively know about being innovative: that it usually happens in the shower. After focusing intently on a project or problem, the brain needs to fully disengage and relax in order for a “Eureka!” moment to arise.

Scott McDowell on The 99 Percent

Go Read It: Developing Your Creative Practice: Tips from Brian Eno

I tend to think that there’s an element of music that cannot be captured. Life cannot be captured. Human heart cannot be captured. The moment of creation itself is fleeting.

Parker Wilson
(played by Richard Gere)
in the movie Hachi

I am tired, Quilan. I have waited for these memories to lose their force over the years and decades and centuries, but they have not. There are places to go, but either I would not be me when I went there, or I would remain myself and so still have my memories. By waiting for them to drop away all this time I have grown into them, and they into me. We have become each other. There is no way back I consider worth taking.

Look To Windward by Iain M. Banks
384

Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.

Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, 22

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

C.S. Lewis

Whatever I was doing in the past doesn’t represent me as I am now. The ideas are still out there, somewhere in the world. But the actual work—that just becomes baggage and clutter.

Penelope Dullaghan, who gets rid of “every sketch, painting, or personal exploration” save the ones she sells. (Communication Arts Advertising Annual Jan/Feb 2010, 44)