- make a playlist for people watching
- how do you determine truth?
- how do you recognize discrepancies between reason and faith?
- what drains your soul? what recharges it?
- five questions you hate not having answers to:
- what fuels your creativity? what drains it?
- "art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human."
- what is the purpose of art?
- have an artgasm.
- tai chi - translates to 'supreme ultimate life force' and is a Chinese martial arts form used for exercise and as a spiritual practice. it is estimated that over 100 million people practice tai chi in China daily.
- in Egyptian heiroglyphics, 'ka' the u-shaped symbol with pointed ram's horns at the tips usually translated into 'soul' or 'spirit.' it was believed that the ram-headed god khnum crafted the ka on his potter's wheel at a person's birth.
- "The bees pillage the flowers here and there, but they make honey of them, which is all their own; it is no longer rhyme or marjoram: so the pieces borrowed from others, he will transform and mix up into a work all his own." - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- why is music so powerful? when has music most moved your soul?
- watch a music video on mute
- inspect the art on a dollar bill
- look inside a grand piano
- listen to no. hits from your year of birth
- stare at the patterns at a fabric store
- explore paint swatches at a hardware store
- watch a makeup artist at work
- go to a bookstore. don't open a single book. just stare at the covers.
- watch a pastry chef decorate a cake.
- analyze a blueprint
- go to an auction. close your eyes. listen to the auctioneer
- pick up your local newspaper. only look at the photos.
- admire an old building
- look at a comic book
- examine the beams and bolts of a roller coaster
- go to a slam poetry reading
- closely admire your fingerprints
- take a gourmet cooking class
- watch a breakdancer headspin
- put on a foreign film. turn off the subtitles.
- observe a florist at work.
- attend a student art show
- watch a sushi chef prepare nigiri
- go to an art gallery and ask the curator for a guided tour
- pull a weed out of the dirt and study its roots
- spy on a poodle getting groomed
- observe a class at a dojo
- look under the hood of a car
- go to a harley davidson store
- check out a carefully manicured garden
- examine the underside of a large bridge
- watch planes take off at the airport
- scrutinize a spiderweb
- look at store signs at night
- go to a yoga studio
- scan the array of bottles in the shampoo aisle
- hunt for street art in your city
- go to a costume store
- trek to the planetarium
- find the most interesting window in your town
- experiment with all the fonts on your computer
- get a pedicure
- google 'heart surgery videos'
- attend an outdoor music festival
- ask a beekeeper to let you observe honeybees at work
- watch a silent film
- look at a stained glass window
- ask to watch a jeweler set a diamond
- take a salsa dane lesson
- observe a tattoo artist at work
- Rainn Wilson interviews Justin Vernon of Bon Iver.
- what mistakes do you keep repeating? what mistakes are unforgivable? what mistakes are you glad you made?
- what would you say if you had 60 seconds to talk a stranger out of taking his or her life?
- what emotion do you wish you could better control?
- in Chinese medicine, health is managed by treating the seven basic emotions. Anger is in the liver; worry in the spleen; pensiveness in the stomach; sadness in the lungs; fear in the kidneys; and joy and shock both affect the heart.
- list 5 risks you haven't had the guts to take yet:
- list 5 nonphysical traits that turn you on:
- jumpstart a secret pen pal relationship with someone you see all the time- keep it secret
- a hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one
- reverse pick pocket
- purge your clutter
- what's one lie you're glad you told?
- can you be confident without being egotistical?
- stash-a-secret
- there's always time to build a fort
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