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“Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness.”

Mind Creativity Depth Unconsciousness

Author:Oliver Sacks

“It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.”

Source: The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age

“Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic nature of the inward journey of creativity, which is by nature back and down - back in time and down into the soul's depths.”

Soul Ends Creativity Imagine Journey Depth Rounds Endless Wheels Inward Revealing Wheel Of Time Back In Time

Book:Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

“There is no one who has ever created music with the combination of intelligence, intuition, depth, creativity, and humor that Jerry Garcia has. His work and life will continue to be a limitless source of inspiration for all of us.”

Inspiration Creativity Source Depth Intuition Combination Limitless Jerry Source Of Inspiration Work And Life

Author:Bruce Hornsby

“To prepare youth for success in entrepreneurial (and free) cultures, education tends to emphasize originality, creativity, breadth, depth and leadership skills rather than rote memorization, standardized curricula or socialization. The latter skill set is vital in societies with strong upper classes employing the lower castes, but the former is essential to free democratic nations.”

“Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.”

World Mean Desire Creativity Creative Bases Foundation Depth Inexplicable

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.”

Way Today Culture Found Creativity Subjects Identity Objects Crisis Depth Creator Spheres Turning Points Foreseen Ripening

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“My point is is that if you are ever comfortable you're not growing and if, unless you are completely out of your depth, your creativity of whatever you are producing, you will never know how strong your stroke it.”

Ifs Knows Strong Creativity Know How Growing Comfortable Depth Strokes

Author:Kate Tempest

“I have known know many therapists who come out of Pacifica Graduate Institute and love being both artists and therapists at the same time, like Maureen Murdock. They are photographers and dancers and other kinds of things and therapists at the same time. I think it really makes them a much more interesting therapist because they're so engaged with the imagination and the creativity and the depths of who they are.”

Thinking Knows Kind Artist Imagination Love Is Interesting Known Creativity And Love Depth Photographer Engaged Dancer Graduates Institute Therapists

Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall

“It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.”

Soul Joy Lying Creativity Darkness Missing Depth Core Brilliance Loveliness

Author:Thomas Moore