"While it may feel natural to devote yourself……" — Eric Maisel
"While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific idea in terms of your overall happiness and health."
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100 Quotes by Eric Maisel
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To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of…
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Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love…
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Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers…
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Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
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Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt…
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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because…
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Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect…
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An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
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The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest…
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More Alienation Quotes
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
— Roland Barthes
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We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes…
— Alex Campbell
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Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society…
— Jean Baker Miller
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In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the…
— Colin Gunton
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The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed…
— J. William Fulbright
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The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel…
— Boyd Rice
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We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's…
— Hans Rookmaaker
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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled…
— Thomas Berry
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Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story…
— Thomas Berry
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To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life.…
— James Taylor
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