“Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.”
Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way
Source: The Artist's Way
“Actual creativeness is a matter of moments.”
Entry (1956)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
Context: Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.
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posthumous
Sarah Dessen book Just Listen
Variant: because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. no matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.
Source: Just Listen
Amit Ray (1960) Indian author
Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Lifestyle (2012) https://books.google.co.in/books?id=sBsG9V1oVdMC,