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“Mary is an immensely important figure in Gnostic mythology, because she is Jesus’ consort and represents the Christian Goddess Sophia. Literalist Christians have completely erased Sophia from Christianity, but she was once as important a figure as Jesus”
― The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom
― The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom
“Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God.”
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Why should I go through all the trouble to make something if the outcome might be nothing?” The answer will usually come with a wicked trickster grin: “Because it’s fun, isn’t it?” Anyhow, what else are you going to do with your time here on earth—not make things? Not do interesting stuff? Not follow your love and your curiosity? There is always that alternative, after all.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“When well-meaning parents and friends push marriage or nine-to-five or anything on us that doesn’t evolve in a way that allows for our art to continue, we will react as if we are fighting for our lives—we are.”
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
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