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Better a trickster than a martyr be."What's the difference between a martyr and a trickster, you ask?Here's a quick primer.Martyr energy is dark, solemn, macho, hierarchical, fundamentalist, austere, unforgiving, and profoundly rigid.Trickster energy is light, sly, transgender, transgressive, animist, seditious, primal, and endlessly shape-shifting.
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Everybody imitates before they can innovate.
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This is why we have to be careful of how we handle our fear—because I’ve noticed that when people try to kill off their fear, they often end up inadvertently murdering their creativity in the process.So I don’t try to kill off my fear. I don’t go to war against it. Instead, I make all that space for it... It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too. In fact, I cordially invite fear to come along with me everywhere I go.
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Everything I’ve ever written has brought me into being. Every project has matured me in a different way. I am who I am today precisely because of what I have made, and what it has made me into. Creativity has hand raised me and forged me into an adult.
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Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.
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You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
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I'm just so weary, Vivian. But I love this kid so much, sometimes I think it will break me in half. Is that the dirty trick? Is this how they get mothers to ruin their lives for their children? By tricking them into loving them so much? Maybe. It's not a bad strategy.
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[There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.
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I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.
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