The Creative Tarot Quotes

“Often we have to feel dissatisfied and anxious and terrible for a long time before we’ll admit to the truth that we should be doing something else. Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher, wrote about how anxiety is a necessary emotion that should be listened to—it is cuing you that change is needed. It is a feeling of uprooting, which is unsettling, but it prepares you for action. Often one must feel the anxiety and the instability in order to make great changes. So it’s time to leave what you’ve been doing and wander around in the dark for a while. You have to go find what does actually satisfy you. It is the start of a journey, and the thing you are searching for won’t be obvious immediately.”
― Jessa Crispin, The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life

“It’s about passion, about allowing yourself to be overwhelmed, allowing a love to be feral without needing to domesticate it. Loving something or someone for what or who it is, not what you want it to be. That takes an enormous amount of strength and integrity. Which ties back in with the calling: allowing something to be scary, to be overwhelming; to devote yourself to it even if it requires great changes from you. It’s something we have to live up to; it does not arrive neatly wrapped up in an understandable package. That would be easy. And the Lovers is always hard. RECOMMENDED”
― Jessa Crispin, The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life

“But here’s a little secret: man cannot live on rationality alone.”
― Jessa Crispin, The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life

“Do you know that maxim “Write what you know”? Nonsense. That saying lets us off the hook for our more narcissistic impulses and for not trying to understand the world around us. The more a person learns—and this does not mean you need to get a PhD before you can work, merely that you nurture your curiosity and imagination—the more nuanced and complex his or her work becomes. Think”
― Jessa Crispin, The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life