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COOL STUFF
Here you can catch a glimpse of the artist outside her studio... away from her work... at play in the world.
Niki welcome's your feedback. Feel free to email her your own favorite quotes, books, and links.
PHOTOS • QUOTES • BOOKS • LINKS
FAVORITE QUOTES I KEEP CLOSE AT HAND
- "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." —George Bernard Shaw
- "That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest." —Henry David Thoreau
- "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainty." —Erich Fromm
- "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." —Linus Pauling
- "It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." —Ursula K. LeGuin
- "I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." —Helen Keller
- "First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do." —Epictetus; slave, teacher, author; 55 - 135 A.D.; from A Manual for Living
- "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." —Anais Nin
- "In the end, though, it is a tribute to the power of the imagination. You cannot make a better world unless you can imagine it so, and the first step toward change depends on the imagination's ability to perform this radical act of faith. I guess I see writing as a similar endeavor." —Ruth Ozeki, author of My Year of Meats
- "Alan Watts once said, 'Beware of teachers who pick your pocket and then sell you your own wallet.' Ironically, that's all any teacher can do, even the best-intentioned one, because the treasure is already inside each of us; no one can give us anything we don't already have. All any teacher can do is provide some keys to help unlock our own door. Teachers may save us some time, but they can only point the way; the beginning and end of the journey is inside us." —Dan Millman, author of The Life You Were Born to Live
- "I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question...Does this path have a heart? The trouble is nobody asks this question; and when a man realizes he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path. For me there is only the travelling on paths that have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length. And there I travel looking, looking breathlessly." —Carlos Castenada, from The Teachings of Don Juan
PHOTOS • QUOTES • BOOKS • LINKS
INSPIRING PEOPLE & THEIR WONDERFUL BOOKS
- Chodron, Pema. When Things Fall Apart. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, 1997.
- Gelb, Michael J. How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci. New York: Random house Publishing, 1998.
- Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications,1986.
- Sarton, May. Journal of A Solitude. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1973.
- Wing, R.L. The I Ching Workbook. New York: Doubleday,1979.
- John Lane. Timeless Simplicity, Creative Living in a Consumer Society. England: Greenbooks, 2001
BOOKS ON TAPE
- Moore, Thomas. The Art of Simplicity.
- Moyers, Bill. The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets (audio soundtrack to the PBS video series) Bantam Doubleday Dell, Inc.
- Myss, Carolyn. Anatomy of the Spirit. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 1996.
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