The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
What I have to do is go back to my beginner’s mind, trying as much as possible to get rid of all my assumptions, the usual pat thoughts, the confusions I have, the conclusions that cause me to contrive direction in the story.
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
This can happen every day. Find a clue, follow a lead, remain unattached to what came before. And avoid getting stuck with a decision you made five minutes ago.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
In Zen Buddhism, this state is referred to as beginner’s mind. Your mind is ready for anything, open to everything. “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities,” writes Shunryu Suzuki. “In the expert’s mind there are few.”
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
Consider the following: In Buddhism, the goal of the spiritual path, if there is one, is Nirvana, or the dissolution of self in connection with something larger, with an ever-expanding spaciousness and timelessness. Taoism’s central concept, the Way, is described as a non-dual experience, the merging of subject and object—often represented by yin a
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