wisdom

Fear rises in thought but falls in action.

The universe is responsive & intelligent — always acting and reacting in our interests.

Here's how to live: **Create**.



The most valuable real estate in the world is the graveyard.
There lie millions of half-written books, ideas never launched, and talents never developed.

Most people die with everything still inside of them.



The way to live is to create.

**Die empty.**

Get every idea out of your head and into reality.



Calling yourself creative doesn't make it true.

All that matters is what you've launched.

Make finishing your top priority.



When most people see modern art, they think, "I could do that!"

But they didn't.

That is the difference between consumer and creator.



Which would you rather be?

Someone who hasn't created anything in years because you're so busy consuming?

Or someone who hasn't consumed anything in years because you're so busy

Digital animation with audio from <n>Alan Watts Org</n> and caption by <n>Joseph P. Kauffman</n>.

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees — to learn something by being nothing.

Illustration inspired by choreography from <n>賴翃中 Lai Hung-Chung</n> and <n>翃舞製作 HungDance</n>.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The <n>Black Cat Star Print in Vintage Style</n> by <n>StarsFeelWarm</n>.

“Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.”

A still from the 1985 film <n>Ran</n>, directed by <n>Akira Kurosawa</n>.

“How strange and foolish is man. He loses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins his present while worrying about his future – but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him, but dies in a way as if he were never born"

Slowly is the fastest way to get you where you want to be.

“No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”  —Carl Jung

You're a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made from stardust, riding a rock, hurtling through space.

Fear Nothing.

"Uncommunicated expectations are premeditated resentments."

—Neil Strauss

<n>El nacimiento de Venus (según Botticelli)</n>, 2009, by artist <n>José Manuel Ballester</n>.

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

The magic you are looking for is in the work you're avoiding.

A photograph from <n>The Book of Stress</n> by <n>Alix Kirsta</n>, 1986.

"Do not stand at my grave and weep; I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in morning’s hush, I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die."

Inspirational quote credited to <n>Leadersonlyco</n>.

“Most of us walk without chains, yet we aren't free. We're tethered to regret and sorrow from the past.
We return to the past and continue to suffer. The past is a prison. But now you have the key to unlock the door and arrive in the present moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Everything I know about my light was taught to me by my darkness.