Jamie Smart | Archive

TTE 163 – Directors Commentary, Elon Musk & Broken Bones

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I’m creating something this week all about the creative process, and I was reminded of this quote by the dancer and choreographer, Martha Graham:

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”

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TTE 162 – Moloko and mind-blowing impact

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
In the theme of ‘quotes that make me appropriately uncomfortable’ that started with Rumi’s contribution last week, here’s a corker from C.S. Lewis:

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”

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TTE 161 – Madness, newbies and self-harm

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I included a quote from the Sufi poet, Rumi towards the end of my first book, CLARITY. This week, I stumbled across the full stanza the quote was excerpted from, and I love it! Here it is in full:

“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”

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TTE 160 – WTF, 3D and the clap

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
As you may already know, I’ve been hugely impacted by the writings and recordings of Sydney Banks. Here’s a line from his book, The Missing Link that I’m reflecting on this week:

“To find that which you seek, discard all thought that there is a separation between the spiritual and the physical world.”

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TTE 159 – Impostor syndrome

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I love the song Forever Young by Bob Dylan. It’s this week’s 3 minute miracle, but the lyrics stand on their own as a beautiful reminder of what matters. Here’s a taste:

“May you grow up to be righteous. May you grow up to be true
May you always know the truth. And see the lights surrounding you
May you always be courageous. Stand upright and be strong
And may you stay. Forever young.”

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TTE 158 – Money beliefs, boldness and getting yer groove on

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I’m a huge fan of Howard Bloom, tunnel-busting author of books including The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain. Check out this tweet-conglomerate that crossed my twitstream this week:

“nature loathes the status quo. she is obsessed with breaking her own laws in order to make new realities. molecules destroyed a status quo in which bare atoms ruled. galaxies chewed holes through peaceful dust clouds and churned them into spiral arms and stars. life eats mere stone and turns it into greenery. then life’s first high rises reach toward stars and break the law of gravity. we call these criminal scrapers of the sky trees. what does this tell us nature wants from human beings? not resignation or apologies. but utter, sheer audacity.”

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TTE 157 – Eagle, Marley and it’s NOT just your thinking

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I was in the back of an Uber on my way to deliver the first module of the Clarity Mentoring Programme a couple of weeks ago, when the classic Bob Marley track, Three Little Birds came on the radio. I’ve loved this song for decades, but I heard it in a completely new light this time. Back when I first listened to the song, I thought it was about circumstances, and a general message of positivity – a kind of “be positive, everything’s going to turn out ok.” But as I listened to it for the umpteenth time, I heard a different message; your true self – who you really – are is already everything you’ve ever longed for. There’s nothing wrong with you, and there never has been. And you don’t need anything before you can be alright. Who you really are is already alright.

“Don’t worry about a thing, ’cause every little thing gonna be alright”

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TTE 156 – Faith and the fannies

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
It’s nearly 7 years since he passed away, and the world is poorer for his absence. There are many of his views I disagree with, but Hitchens seems pretty on point with this one (from one of his electric debate performances):

“The problem to begin with the: replacement of reason by faith the discarding of the one thing that makes us important and useful and different from other primates in favour of something that requires no evidence and just requires incantation is not good for you. If Dr. McGrath or anyone else could come up with an example of a society which had fallen into slavery and bankruptcy and beggary and terror and misery because it had adopted the teachings and the precepts of Spinoza and Einstein and Pierre Bayle and Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine then I’d be impressed and that would be a fair test on a level playing field. But you will find no such example..” Read More →

TTE 155 – Accountability, Exile and DNA

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I can’t be reminded of this one often enough. Lao Tzu hits it out of the park:

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Read More →

TTE 154 – Weight loss, iPads and The Clash

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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
This week’s quote comes from a fascinating interview I heard with journalist, author, translator and activist Masha Gessen:

“Politics is a conversation about how we inhabit this world together. It can only be had if there’s an assumption of good faith on both sides. I think that the assumption of bad faith is not unfounded. And yet we can only have the conversation if we assume good faith.” Read More →