November 2011
“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.”
—Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity (via bookoasis)
“That’s pretty much what the schools are like, I think: they reward discipline and obedience, and they punish independence of mind. If you happen to be a little innovative, or maybe you forgot to come to school one day because you were reading a book or something, that’s a tragedy, that’s a crime - because you’re not supposed to think, you’re supposed to obey, and just proceed through the material in whatever way they require.”
—Noam Chomsky (via cultureofresistance)
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.” —Nisargadatta Maharaj (via whimsicalele)
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.” —Nisargadatta Maharaj (via whimsicalele)
