Melissavanbiljon

“Selling your soul for money, recognition, or any otherworldly good is like selling your hearing for a music collection. It’s pointless.”
― Michael Gungor, The Crowd, The Critic And The Muse: A Book For Creators

“Happy is he who is aware of the mysteries of his Lord.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

“Yet somehow, in the embrace of our frailty and meaninglessness, we find meaning. This is faith. Faith is the opposite of arrogance. Faith is open eyes and open heart.”
― Michael Gungor, The Crowd, The Critic And The Muse: A Book For Creators

“entertaining. Part of the reason people aren’t building cathedrals anymore is that we are too lazy and spoiled for the pain and the work that they demand from us. This sort of laziness leads to an artistic narcissism that creates art as a mere emotional expression of the ego rather than an intentional and profound re-ordering or re-imagining of the world.”
― Michael Gungor, The Crowd, The Critic And The Muse: A Book For Creators