The most beautiful thing we can experience is the Mysterious — the knowledge of the existence of something unfathomable to us, the manifestation of the most profound reason coupled with the most brilliant beauty. I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, or who has a will of the [...]
Winona Ryder starred in the film based on Susanna Kaysen’s novel Girl, Interrupted, and thinks Kaysen “captures a mood we’ve all experienced. “It’s like a reflective time we’ve all had in our lives.. You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.” Psychologist Pat Allen, [...]
Louise MacBain is CEO and President of LTB Group of Companies, which publishes around 50 art-related magazines, and website artinfo.com. A new profile article in New York Magazine [The Genius Collector, By Vanessa Grigoriadis] mentions her dinner parties, or, as MacBain calls them, “think tanks.” which have “glitter and politics, artists and Nobel Prize–winning scientists, [...]
Themes of perseverence, not allowing ourselves to be overcome, encouraging intention and thinking that supports our positive growth, run through so many writings and teachings of experts on success philosophy and achievement dynamics. For example, Bob Proctor, in his article Notes on The Secret DVD, comments, “Because we have the freedom to think anything we [...]
In the new issue [Nov/Dec 2006] of her newsletter Winning Ways, Barbara Winter talks about this idea of having a “merry heart” in business: “There are hundreds of perfectly smart reasons to be joyfully jobless, not the least of which is that people who are doing work that they love tend to be, well, more [...]
It is all too easy to feel we don’t have the right credits, enough credentials, or sufficient acclaim such as awards to be truly competent people and creators. Massage therapist and actor Cynthia Waring writes in her interview/article that one of the things she wanted to do through her solo performance show was “to inspire [...]
“For the person who’s ready to change, to grow, to look at things that challenge them and try to learn how to do it differently, that person is going to bloom and blossom into their creativity… when we’re blocked by not taking good enough care of ourselves physically, emotionally, we can’t produce the work we [...]
The reality that you accept is made up of a matrix of interacting belief systems that can either be useful to you or disempower you. Financial beliefs that can disempower you include convictions such as “It’s hard to make money,” “You have to be born into wealth,” or “You have to work for years to [...]
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Site author: Douglas Eby, M.A./Psychology, is a writer and researcher on the psychology of creative expression and personal growth, especially for high ability adults. He is publisher of the Talent Development Resources series of sites.
