“What do I mean by “locked in time”? I mean, first of all, that we characteristically view mobile phenomena in immobile terms. We see processes like love and education as established circumstances rather than as complex temporal organisms whose lives depend on regular nourishment and renewal. Conversely, we tend to accept our own fear, weakness and ignorance as chronic disabilities rather than facing them, as we should, with the awareness that they are temporary and surmountable. Like still cameras, our minds consistently convert motion into stasis. In our language about time we resort to rocklike absolutisms – creation, completion, means, end, permanence, annihilation – terms whose static and extreme implications make them poor approximations of history and experience… We have little use at all for that most subtle and suggestive of words, renewal.” TimeGrowthLibertyLiberationTime Management Book:Time and the Art of Living Source: Time and the Art of Living
“At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.” MindPainFallLibertySkyFiguresMountainBirdBlueClothingsBalloonsFall BackBlue SkyResoluteSpatialSailboat Book:Time and the Art of Living Source: Time and the Art of Living
“We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.” ThinkingMindWholeRealityAbleFreedomAbilityLibertyCreativityCreativeAlternativesExceedCreative Mind Book:The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation Source: The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation
