“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.” IfsKnowsMindKindMayLongSeemsIndividualImaginationSpaceAttentionKnownCreativityPeriodsStandardsHappeningsDepthAvailableAbsenceFamiliarWanderLeapLeisureSignalsAccustomedFloatsLong Periods Of TimeRuts Book:The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age Source: The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age
“It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.” WorldMayLongDoeHas BeensGivenNaturalDangerPeriodsFindingsEmploymentOccupationRetirementRetiringIndispensableAccustomedGiven UpCalculatingNew Business Author:Christian Nestell Bovee