Anais Nin On Adventure
We create a sense of adventure through writing, painting, and creation, for writing is learning to love again. A sense of meaning carries us through our suffering. The belief in the universality of our experience carries us through the potential of transforming our pain. Our faith in committing ourselves to a grand adventure is the […]
Anais Nin On Reading
Our spirits are revealed through the content that nourishes our soul. There is no such thing as a bad artist only a artist that we don’t need at the moment. The purpose of the artist is to reach into the unconscious and shine light on our collective fears, doubts, and anxieties. The artists reveals the […]
Yuval Noah Harari On Meaning.
An infinite number of hopeless souls fill our world. And many more fight tirelessly for a sign, symbol, or sense of change that will fuel their aching hearts. Some days I appear to be the only one that can see the damage being done; my peers are weak from meaninglessness, but fight daily and hourly […]
Anais Nin On Refusing Despair
Every man, if he intends on being happy, must find a way to live without the masks, walls, and facades that prevent us from recognizing our brother’s humanity. In order to assist in the creation of a compassionate, gracious, and honest world we must develop this sense of community and fellowship. We forget that the […]
James Baldwin On Humanity
Addressing his nephew, James Baldwin On Humanity compares the conditions psychologically separating generations–the life his father lived and the life of his nephew. However, while alot has change in the 50 years separating grandfather and grandson we are still in danger of the world defining our image of ourselves. Baldwin aims at instructing his nephew […]
Lessons on Love
This is an extremely difficult record to assess. A gunman walked into a LBGTQIA+ club in Colorado, and opened fire on the human beings inside. He suffered from a fear confused by hate. I discovered, during my freshmen year at college, that some people move through the world with a feeling of persecution. And having […]
Brewster Ghiselin on Creativity
Use despair to create art. Like the bird that flew from the hand of Noah we find our hope through art. Art is the stylization of our experience. We learn to display the benefits, and necessity of maintaining the faith. Through this act we help people face themselves; through this act I found myself. Creation […]
James Baldwin on The Creative Process
Carrying 4 novels in a duffel bag on a boat to Paris, James Baldwin, age 24, hope to escape racism and live in a creative incubus that allowed him to write; shortly after his arrival he lost those collections. Losing those novels symbolized a letting go of the identity forced upon him by his peculiar […]
Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire; Answers from the most important cultural figures of a generation.
A parlor game popularized (though not devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature. Long before becoming one of the greatest human beings to touch a pen, Marcel Proust probed his psyche as many have done after him. Vanity […]
Lorraine Hansberry on loneliness being a gift and a curse for artistic endeavors.
Every great work is crafted through a long dialogue within loneliness, and through the acceptance of our aloneness our work helps people understand their position in the world. Lorraine Hansberry, simple, eloquent and committed to purposeful writing, says, “Write the best one can about whatever agitates one and try to strike art.” Lorraine’s writing was […]