Comments on: Inspiration is the Patron Saint of Comfort Zones http://adrianvarnam.com/creativity/inspiration-is-the-patron-saint-of-comfort-zones?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=inspiration-is-the-patron-saint-of-comfort-zones Creativity, Community, and Change Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tony http://adrianvarnam.com/creativity/inspiration-is-the-patron-saint-of-comfort-zones#comment-208 Tony Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:10:43 +0000 http://adrianvarnam.com/?p=196#comment-208   Change is much important than never. The world changes so as the people living must also change not their personalities but the improvement of their activities, status, and lifestyles. People must consider the facts that one must innovate in order to cope up with the fast approaching changes happening every time. I give much importance in practicing how to abide with the changes occurring around me. I appreciate these changes as a challenge by which one must follow to face everything that may come in our life as we pursue to live in this world.  
Change is much important than never. The world changes so as the people living must also change not their personalities but the improvement of their activities, status, and lifestyles. People must consider the facts that one must innovate in order to cope up with the fast approaching changes happening every time.
I give much importance in practicing how to abide with the changes occurring around me. I appreciate these changes as a challenge by which one must follow to face everything that may come in our life as we pursue to live in this world.

]]> By: M http://adrianvarnam.com/creativity/inspiration-is-the-patron-saint-of-comfort-zones#comment-10 M Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:36:14 +0000 http://adrianvarnam.com/?p=196#comment-10 As always, you've created a thought-provoking piece. As I traverse my day-to-day, which has felt more monotonous than motivating of late, I've found myself lounging in the mental/emotional pit of 'needing inspiration.' Apparently, thou art correct, as it hasn't cascaded over my head like a showering of petals from the Gods of Inspiration to date. Inspiration is indeed an amazing feeling, but I agree with you -- it is through our actions that we find it, regardless of the import or lack thereof. It's so simple, though, to use inspiration as a rationalization that procrastinating until the omnipresence of...whatever we think it should be...encompasses our lives to MOVE FORWARD. Today, you inspire me to fish inspiration out, focus on wheat as opposed to chaff, actively LOOK for my own...To wait idly by for it to show up is to become Mrs. Havisham, no? As always, you’ve created a thought-provoking piece. As I traverse my day-to-day, which has felt more monotonous than motivating of late, I’ve found myself lounging in the mental/emotional pit of ‘needing inspiration.’ Apparently, thou art correct, as it hasn’t cascaded over my head like a showering of petals from the Gods of Inspiration to date. Inspiration is indeed an amazing feeling, but I agree with you — it is through our actions that we find it, regardless of the import or lack thereof. It’s so simple, though, to use inspiration as a rationalization that procrastinating until the omnipresence of…whatever we think it should be…encompasses our lives to MOVE FORWARD. Today, you inspire me to fish inspiration out, focus on wheat as opposed to chaff, actively LOOK for my own…To wait idly by for it to show up is to become Mrs. Havisham, no?

]]> By: Chris http://adrianvarnam.com/creativity/inspiration-is-the-patron-saint-of-comfort-zones#comment-9 Chris Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:44:19 +0000 http://adrianvarnam.com/?p=196#comment-9 Funny faces: It is the expression that is the most valuable asset to artistic endeavors and our production techniques that enable us to channel that expression into goods and services. I find that the greatest contributions to my own sanity come from works that I won't produce for public consumption or bring outside myself for unwanted exploitation but that sooth my inner beast for lack of love for the world beyond. I've heard that you have to create a sanctuary around or within yourself for inspiration. To draw on these inspirations you need to bring them within the sanctuary of your creation process. Whether it be within yourself, without or perhaps even by placing yourself within an environment and recreating that environment symbolically. You have to give yourself an opportunity to draw off of your muse or simply to draw from your own experiences in environments that provoke you to action. It seems pretentious to do so but as you soar through your work you can only be grateful for those provocations that have inspired you to react or respond through your expressive devices. Funny faces: It is the expression that is the most valuable asset to artistic endeavors and our production techniques that enable us to channel that expression into goods and services. I find that the greatest contributions to my own sanity come from works that I won’t produce for public consumption or bring outside myself for unwanted exploitation but that sooth my inner beast for lack of love for the world beyond.

I’ve heard that you have to create a sanctuary around or within yourself for inspiration. To draw on these inspirations you need to bring them within the sanctuary of your creation process. Whether it be within yourself, without or perhaps even by placing yourself within an environment and recreating that environment symbolically. You have to give yourself an opportunity to draw off of your muse or simply to draw from your own experiences in environments that provoke you to action. It seems pretentious to do so but as you soar through your work you can only be grateful for those provocations that have inspired you to react or respond through your expressive devices.

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