It lives also in our customs, including the way we speak. We carry the past around with us all the time, and not just in our bodies. Even complex qualities such as your sense of balance, musical abilities, shyness in crowds, or susceptibility to sickness have been lived before.

The lips and eyes that either bother or please you are not yours alone but are also features of your ancestors, long dead perhaps as individuals but still very much alive as fragments in you. Although your face, in one sense, is your own, it is composed of a collage of features you have inherited from your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on. “When you look in the mirror you see not just your face but a museum. “The only requirements for attending our workshops are curiosity and a desire to explore the creative spirit inherent to us all.” The Creativity Workshop “Creativity is an act of defiance.” Twyla Tharp “The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” Robert Henri

The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.” Joseph Campbell

All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. “I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Know this and plan accordingly.” Hugh McCleod The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. “Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. Any brain worth a nickel knows books are good for us.” Kurt Vonnegut A large part of our brains is devoted to deciding whether what our hands are touching is good or bad for us. The sweet reluctance of their pages when you turn them with your sensitive fingertips.

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