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How We Live Now with Katherine May

CHAPTER

The Complex Relationship Between Silence and Creativity

There's something that you say right at the beginning of the book that struck me so hard which i've been thinking about a lot because like as you might know i've written about my autism diagnosis five years ago now. You write so beautifully at the beginning about how like white religious thinking has often told you that silence and retreat and isolation are where you enter into spiritual communion but that actually your creative life doesn't exist in a vacuum. I'm learning that sometimes the most sacred thing to do is to shout that that spirituality exists within community  and i think we can use that interchangeably with creativity there may beYes yeah i think that's beautiful and to allow that for yourself to oh i

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