Quotes from Mark Bryan

Anger is uncomfortable; it is useful; it announces our boundaries and can goad us in the direction of our dreams; if unchanneled, it is a highly destructive force; if channeled for change, it is a booster rocket.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived, —THOMAS MERTON

When people are blocked creatively, they avoid fun. Why? Because fun leads straight to creativity. Fun leads to healthy anarchy, to festive rebellion, to sensing our own strength and power. Feeling our own power is often frightening.

Sometimes knowledge impedes change: We know more but do less.

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both. —T. S. ELIOT

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —LEO TOLSTOY

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads. our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

It has been said that you cannot give what you do not have, but it is also true that you cannot keep what you have without giving it away.

Together, teaching and learning are the soul of creativity. Our creative vitality arises from our generosity as teachers coupled with our humility as learners. The two cannot be separated; they are the very heartbeat of the creative self.

Creativity is tidal. We must both deepen and become more shallow in order to deepen again.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. —JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

I think luxury is having a sense of personal continuity, of personal passion, in the midst of a busy public life, Julia postulates.

To be able to create, we must be willing to learn how to quiet our minds, feel our emotions, and stay in the vacuum so the ideas can well up from our deepest place of knowing.

Fritz Perls says that the more deeply grounded we are in our actual reality, the more possibility exists for actual change. In other words, acceptance of the present must precede action.

Do all the good you can / By all the means you can / In all the ways you can / In all the places you can / At all the times you can / To all the people you can / As long as ever you can. —JOHN WESLEY

We shape clay into a pot, but it is emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. -TAO TE CHING