Grateful Dead

"Creativity requires the courageto let go of certainties." -Erich Fromm

"Any activity becomes creative whenthe doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better." -John Updike

“Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You follow it a far as you can go. But finally,the grief goes away and you phase back into the world. Without him. And you can accept that. What the hell choice is there? You cry, you continue to cry, because you don't ever completely come back from where you went with him -- a fragment broken off your pulsing, pumping heart is there still. A cut that never heals. And if, when it happens to you over and over again in life, too much of your heart does finally go away, then you can't feel grief any more. And then you yourself are ready to die. You'll walk up the inclined ladder and someone else will remain behind grieving for you.” ― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

“Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.” ― Philip K. Dick

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"Judge a man by hisquestions rather than by his answers." -Voltaire

In speaking about creativity, E. L. Doctorow said... "It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

"May Father Sky light all your trails,And may Earth Mother keep them straight." -Mary Summer Rain

"The State thus becomes an instrument by which the power of the whole herd is wielded for the benefit of a class. The rulers soon learn to capitalize the reverence which the State produces in the majority, and turn it into a general resistance toward a lessening of their privileges. The sanctity of the State becomes identified with the sanctity of the ruling class..." Thanks for the link, Mike Edwards

"Humor characterizes consciousness. For me, life would be so empty without humor—it would be unbearable, it would be like life without music." —Jerry Garcia (From a 1995 interview)