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Tag: creativity

Rick Ruben
Book Bits

“Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity

February 25, 2026February 25, 2026 Vanessa Able

What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?

Tagged analysis, awareness, Buddhism, creativity, form, mindfulness, noticing, perception, Source, TaoismLeave a comment
Ray Bradbury
Book Bits

Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing

June 20, 2025June 18, 2025 Vanessa Able

Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice

Tagged Advice, craft, creativity, hunger, Inspiration, love, Muse, observation, passion, stories, Wisdom, Writing2 Comments
John Fowles
Book Bits

A Temple of Living Pillars: John Fowles’ Ode to the Sacred and Sensuous Tree

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 Vanessa Able

Author John Fowles on the ways in which trees and forests formed the bedrock of his own creative, psychic and religious sensibility.

Tagged architecture, creativity, forests, humanity, nature, pillars, religion, sacred, temples, Trees, wildernessLeave a comment
Denise Levertov
Poetry

Denise Levertov – The Secret

August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 Vanessa Able

The unintentional authoring of a line that reveals something profound to a reader, remains a mystery to the author herself.

Tagged authorship, creativity, Insight, meaning, mystery, Poem, Poetry, secretLeave a comment
Way-Seeking Mind

The Loss

January 25, 2022January 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY EDWARD M COHEN I only write this down because it causes so much pain. It involves so much loss that in the moment, when I awake with no desire to rush for a pen, it’s hard to see the value in what is happening.

Tagged biography, creativity, loss, memoir, obsession, writer's block, WritingLeave a comment
Lewis Hyde
Book Bits

To Possess Is To Give

December 3, 2020December 4, 2020 Vanessa Able

Lewis Hyde's book The Gift is a treatise on the power of the creative spirit and the dynamics of giving to transform the world.

Tagged begging, creativity, economy, Emptiness, flow, Gift, giving, mendicantLeave a comment
Kamaiyah
Lyrics

Kamaiyah – Ten Toes High

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Vanessa Able

Oakland-born rapper and singer Kamaiyah's Ten Toes High is an affirmation of her devotion to her art and her creativity.

Tagged art, creativity, dedication, determination, hustle, love, lyrics, Poetry, RapLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - Self-Compassion
    Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - Self-Compassion
  • Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - For When We Greet Each Other
    Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - For When We Greet Each Other
  • Shaomei Yu - The Closed Door
    Shaomei Yu - The Closed Door
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes

- BOOK BITS -

  • Don’t Waste Suffering: Ramiro López Larroy on Opening the Doors of Liberation
    How can we use the things that give us difficulty in our lives to learn and grow, rather than avoiding them, or trying to push them away?
  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.


- POETRY-

  • Shaomei Yu – The Closed Door
    Chinese-American poet Shaomei Yu reflects on loss and transition with Zen-like sparseness in her poem "The Closed Door".
  • Claudia Kessel – Samsara
    In her epic "Samsara", poet Claudia Kessel leans the ancient tenants of Buddhism against the gritty reality of the 21st Century.
  • A Year of Kō: 16th Sekki
    16th Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, MADISON WILLIAMS and SHAOMEI YU
  • Bob Rama – Ascetic Aesthetics
    Translator and poet Bob Rama shines a little candlelight on ascetic renunciation in his pleasingly-titled poem "Ascetic Aesthetics".
  • Emily Tong – Girlhood Ghazal
    Using the ancient poetic form of the ghazal, Asian-American poet Emily Tong searches for home in her "Girlhood Ghazal".
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