be an artist of life

I believe most of these are from Wayne Dyer (someone correct me if I’m mis-attributing).

Secrets to life:
1) First, allow everything to be exactly
as it is.
2) Learn to respond, not react.
3) Have a mind that is open to
everything and attached to nothing.
4) Don’t die with your music still in you.
5) You can’t give away what you
don’t have.
6) Embrace Silence.
7) Give up your personal history.
8) You can’t solve a problem with the
same mind that created it.
9) There are no justified resentments.
10) Treat yourself as if you already
are what you most want to be.
11) Treasure your divinity.
12) Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts
that weaken you.

...So dream. Dream big. Dream crazy. Dream all the time. Imagine wildly. Imagine outrageously. Turn the valve of your imagination to the full open position and let all possibilities flood through you with the force of Niagara. Jump into it with wild abandon, be awash in and appreciate the torrent of ideas. Drink them in. Splash in them. Let them dissolve any crusty limitations you feel. The more ideas the better; the bigger the flood of wild dreams, the better. Eventually one is going to flow along side of you that changes everything. Snatch it up, merge with it and continue to be washed away by realities you’ve never dreamed of. Any time you perceive a problem, open that valve up again and let the ocean pour through.

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“But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.”—Carl Jung

“Carpe that ol’ Diem; it’s the only game in town.”—Lazarus Long