One of the key aspects of the creative feminine principle - creative stillness – is the ability to discern the difference between free will and flow. (Putting free will into creative action is the masculine principle’s job.) I find this to be a significant challenge and a pretty important discernment to develop in order to manifest outcomes [...]
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Musings of an artist in labor
Posted in creativity, entrepreneurship, inspiration, life lessons, tagged creativity, Elizabeth Gilbert, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thrive!, Thrive! Falling in Love with Life on October 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My second book, Thrive! Falling in Love with Life, is about three weeks away from release, and right now, I am experiencing some pre-labor pains. Along with emotions ranging from anxiety and pains to thrill and joy, there is that ripe readiness of something ready to burst forth from the womb, unable to remain in utero any longer, because it [...]
Quality Time: Fulfillment, not Busyness
Posted in business, career, creativity, entrepreneurship, life lessons, tagged creativity, Fulfillment, Hugh McLeod, not busyness, Quality Time on August 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In a recent exchange with two close friends after a late-evening music-practice session, I said something about needing a solid night’s rest these days because of how full my time is … without a single purposeless moment (well, almost). Before I could quite finish my thought, one of them jumped to challenge me: “Then how is that different from the rat-race of [...]
Courageous Creativity
Posted in career, creativity, entrepreneurship, inspiration, literature, transculturalism, tagged Courageous Creativity, creativity, transculturalism, writing platform on July 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I have come to believe that creative expression is the source of healing, empowerment and transformation. Because creativity at its best involves personal / emotional risk – i.e. courage, it always causes change inside oneself. And inevitably, it also causes change outside oneself - in the world - however tiny the impact may be. In my journey in the last 2 years, I was fortunate to recognize [...]
Closing doors … to open doors
Posted in business, career, creativity, entrepreneurship, life lessons, relationships, tagged career paths, closing doors, creativity, entrepreneurship, opening and closing doors, opening doors, relationships, Thrive! Falling in Love with Life on June 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
[Adaptated into an essay in my book Thrive! Falling in Love with Life, published Nov 1, 2011.] Our culture emphasizes having options. We interview in multiple places so that we have options for a place of employment; we interview several candidates for a job to find the right fit with a position. We meet different people for an [...]
Arjuna and the Fish Eye: the fallacy of being over-informed, hyper-busy and multi-tasking
Posted in business, career, childhood memories, consciousness, creativity, culture, entrepreneurship, inspiration, life lessons, psychology, spirituality, tagged Freedom from the Known, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Thrive! Falling in Love with Life on December 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
[Adaptated into an essay in my book Thrive! Falling in Love with Life, published Nov 1, 2011. This is also one of my most-read posts!] Here’s a little story from the Hindu epic Mahabharata, about the renowned archery master Dronacharya training the Pandava brothers in the art and skill of archery. Once, when the five [...]
