When we’re showing up fully moment to moment, there’s no room for regret/anxiety/disillusionment, just a whole lot of happiness. Here’s to getting our areté on!
Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work… is my brain – particularly the right brain… the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical.
The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.
Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy.
If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as ‘excellence’ or ‘virtue,’ but has a deeper meaning — something closer to ‘expressing the highest version of ourselves.’
They’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like ‘grrrr!” and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil sounded like that. I thought he was coherent like the rest of us.’
