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And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen

#259 Chris Ferreiras - How You Love Is Who You Are

And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen

Cory Allen

Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Business

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

“The only thing that separates you from another person is a simple gesture. Sometimes that gesture is kindness. Sometimes it’s patience. Sometimes it’s the openness to create space and let another person exist as who they are.”Christopher Ferreiras is a Dominican-American artist, poet, and author from New York City.This was a beautiful conversation that got deeper with every minute. We talk about the creative path, the gift of being present in daily life, letting go of ego trappings, and why ...

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0:00.0

As a creative person you can't just go full on into the creative process only you have to deal with a bunch of other things

0:09.3

How does that work for you? How do you kind of manage your creative output and outflow along with all the other stuff

0:16.1

you have to do to keep that alive?

0:19.8

That's a really good question.

0:20.8

It's really challenging because I find that like in many ways all my all my

0:27.4

years of dancing with my creative voice has led me to this moment of being able to juggle it with my everyday

0:38.9

mundane demands and routines and all those things.

0:42.6

Like I've been I've been writing since I mean I've been writing for as long as I can remember but I was like

0:48.6

always working on something you know since high school like you know, since high school.

0:52.5

Like, you know, I had a little blackberry that I would take to school or rather leave at,

0:58.0

I would like my, I would take the train with my mom and in high school every so often and like, you know, whenever I did I would I would write on my on my

1:07.7

blackberry all the stories that I had in my mind all the observations that I

1:11.8

made on the train little things like that and so I was always with it you know what I mean like I was always on on beat with it and then on my way back home I would also do the same thing like you know I would always be with my writing and so what I find is that even still like you know I have this visual in my mind that like the creative well spring is always there and like in me I'm

1:38.7

always sitting beside it but in my conscious reality like in where I am in the moment, I'm also at this table, you know, with the journal in front of me having this conversation with you. You know, if I'm, you know, doing dishes and doing, you know if I'm you know doing dishes and doing you know cooking and

1:55.2

doing mundane things there is a part of me that is also like still there in that

2:00.1

creative stream trying to see if there's a relationship between what I'm

2:05.7

working through on the inside and what is going on in the outside and how I relate

2:10.5

to that thing or how present I can be with that thing or how present I can be with that thing. And oftentimes what I find is that there

2:16.0

are like little synchronicities between what I'm feeling, what I'm working through on the inside, and

2:22.0

my relationship to my activity.

2:24.7

So for example, I'll notice that like my ability to be present with the mundane

2:31.7

is dependent on how at ease or at peace I am with what I'm currently

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