He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.
To be simple means to make a choice about what's important, and let go of all the rest. When we are able to do this, our vision expands, our heads clear, and we can better see the details of our lives in all their incredible wonder and beauty.
The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, non-linear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a reflection of the boundless creativity of the universe.
If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would say it's trust. When you learn to trust yourself implicitly, you no longer need to prove something through your art. You simply allow it to come out, to be as it is. This is when creating art becomes effortless. It happens just as you grow your hair. It grows.
The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.
If you miss the moment, you miss your life.
I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.
I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.
All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now in daisy, now in a wind-waft, a cloud, a sunset; a power that holds constant and sweetest relation with the dark and silent world within us. The same God who is in us, and upon whose tree we are the buds, if not yet the flowers, also is all about us- inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us.
When I work I always find something.