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The externalization of internal experience onto a physical object like a card creates some distance that gives us room to breathe, shifts how we relate to ourselves, and offers a new vantage point to look from. The cards allow us to safely
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“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.”
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.”
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Start doing something, you'll continue.. why? Because motivation doesn't cause action. Action causes motivation.”
― The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything
― The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything
“There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability.”
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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