The Elements of Style: The Movie
Maira Kalman, the New York-based artist has created a movie based on "The Elements of Style," the classic primer on writing by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. (Mr. White wrote Charlotte's Web)
Here are some quotes that caught my imagination:
Who can say what ignites a certain combination of words allowing them to explode in the mind.
Like notes arranged in music, words stir the listener deeply.
Creative writing - Communication through revelation, the self escaping into the open.
Leave solid ground.
Steering by stars that are constantly in motion.
Style - his sound, the sound the words make on paper, reveals his spirit, his habits, his capacity, his bias. This is inevitable and enjoyable.
Use words that are poetical and sensuous - the secret sounds of beauty.
Style in the sense of what is distinguished and distinguishing.
Style is non detachable.
Writers face themselves.
Remove barriers that separate you from other minds and other hearts.
Admire what is good, than when you write in a way that comes naturally, you will echo what bears repeating.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Bonds of Power, by Joseph Chilton Pierce
Joseph Chilton Pierce is one of my favorite authors. As many know, I am very fond of reading. I always take notes when I read and here are some notes from Bonds of Power.
Correct the course, not the error. Shift from error correction to course alignment.
Personality is the ultimate creation, the sum total of awareness.
The creation and separation of a unique personality out of this unity of awareness is the developmental way to create a creator.
When the Pawn reaches the opposite King's row, it becomes Queen and can then move anywhere, in any direction. The ability to perceive and create on any and all levels of consciousness.
Reversibility Thinking - the ability of insight intelligence to trace thoughts back to its source.
If our keys are not unlocking a quality of life in harmony and creation - we should switch keys.
Capacity to relax and recognize one's own desires, thoughts and intentions arising from within and feeling good.
The first step toward freedom is to see it as the ability to create, not the absence of being controlled.
Kundalini, our dominant creative energy, offers no handles for social control or scientific analysis.
Matter manifests through the interweaving of different energy vibrations.
The creative system as a holographic movement, a single unit, a gestalt, an impulse or state which cannot be divided in any way, but can be represented in an infinite number of ways.
All time is enfolded in any second.
All matter is enfolded within any bit of matter.
All consciousness is enfolded within any single mind/brain.
All conceivable space is enfolded within any particle of space.
Thought (man), consciousness (bonding power, connecting force, energy, Shakti, Holy Spirit), and insight (God) form a trinity.
Autonomy is not a state, but the ability to create a state.
A thing's name is its numen, its imaginative reality in the eternal world of the human mind.
Correct the course, not the error. Shift from error correction to course alignment.
Personality is the ultimate creation, the sum total of awareness.
The creation and separation of a unique personality out of this unity of awareness is the developmental way to create a creator.
When the Pawn reaches the opposite King's row, it becomes Queen and can then move anywhere, in any direction. The ability to perceive and create on any and all levels of consciousness.
Reversibility Thinking - the ability of insight intelligence to trace thoughts back to its source.
If our keys are not unlocking a quality of life in harmony and creation - we should switch keys.
Capacity to relax and recognize one's own desires, thoughts and intentions arising from within and feeling good.
The first step toward freedom is to see it as the ability to create, not the absence of being controlled.
Kundalini, our dominant creative energy, offers no handles for social control or scientific analysis.
Matter manifests through the interweaving of different energy vibrations.
The creative system as a holographic movement, a single unit, a gestalt, an impulse or state which cannot be divided in any way, but can be represented in an infinite number of ways.
All time is enfolded in any second.
All matter is enfolded within any bit of matter.
All consciousness is enfolded within any single mind/brain.
All conceivable space is enfolded within any particle of space.
Thought (man), consciousness (bonding power, connecting force, energy, Shakti, Holy Spirit), and insight (God) form a trinity.
Autonomy is not a state, but the ability to create a state.
A thing's name is its numen, its imaginative reality in the eternal world of the human mind.
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