A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. Laughter is the best creative medicine. ~John Cleese
“I need rituals that encourage me to embrace what is repetitive, ancient, and quiet.” ― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
What I’ve used [the cut-up technique] for ... is igniting anything that might be in my imagination. It can often come up with very interesting attitudes to look into. ~David Bowie
Writing is “based in a craving to get through the curtains of things as they appear, to things as they are, and then into the larger, wilder space of things as they are becoming.” ~May Swenson
Ask the world to reveal its quietude ... the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else. ~Wendell Berry
Or maybe it was more like the development of a delight muscle. Something that implied that the more you study delight, the more delight there was to study. ~Ross Gay
