“Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.” TryingMindIdeasMotivationalPurposeOrderProcessWalksCreativeStageParticularBrokenEssentialsFlowCombinationBoredomUnconsciousPocketsManifestStillnessCreative ProcessMuseBikeFragmentsFloatsDaydreamingClicksProcessingUnconscious Mind Author:Maria Popova
“A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk.” IfsBelieveHas BeensMadeFallAsksWalksEssentialsSurvivalAriseGuruCrutches Author:U.G. Krishnamurti
“The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.” SoulSometimesSufferingImaginationWalksPayPoetFineEssentialsCapableProductionsDustHeightEcstasySensibilityTemperamentTransportMorbid Author:Myrtle Reed
“An essential virtue is humility. ... The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance is a virtue, but with it should go a consciousness of the need of superior help-a consciousness that as you walk firmly in the pathway of duty, there is a possibility of your making a misstep; and with that consciousness is a prayer, a pleading that God will inspire you to avoid that false step” NeedsFeelsShouldSelfHelpingPrayerWalksConsciousnessStepsPrinciplesVirtuePossibilityHumilityInspireDivineDutyEssentialsGods WillSuperiorsGuidanceSelf RelianceReliancePathwaysPleadingDivine Guidance Author:David O. McKay
“Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.” ChristianCommunitySimpleWalksEssentialsMathDiscipleDay To Day Book:Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups Source: Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups
“For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.” ImportantLife IsDesirePassionWalksJourneyWalkingCivilizationSolitudeEssentialsIndependenceWanderEnjoymentHikingInclinationTrekkingStrollingSaunteringClutchOverpoweringPassion For LifePanorama Author:Bob Marshall