Vera Nazarian
"One of the strangest things is the act of creation. You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instrument. You then look inside yourself. You pull and tug and squeeze and fish around for slippery raw shapeless things that swim like fish made of cloud vapor and fill you with living clamor. You latch onto something. And you bring it forth out of your head like Zeus giving birth to Athena. And as it comes out, it takes shape and tangible form. It drips on the canvas, and slides through your pen, it springs forth and resonates into the musical strings, and slips along the edge of the sculptor’s tool onto the surface of the wood or marble. You have given it cohesion. You have brought forth something ordered and beautiful out of nothing. You have glimpsed the divine."
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"One of the strangest things is the act of creation. You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instrument. You then look inside yourself. You pull and tug and squeeze and fish around for slippery raw shapeless things that swim like fish made of cloud vapor and fill you with living clamor. You latch onto something. And you bring it forth out of your head like Zeus giving birth to Athena. And as it comes out, it takes shape and tangible form. It drips on the canvas, and slides through your pen, it springs forth and resonates into the musical strings, and slips along the edge of the sculptor’s tool onto the surface of the wood or marble. You have given it cohesion. You have brought forth something ordered and beautiful out of nothing. You have glimpsed the divine."
"إن من أعجب الأمور وأغربها فعل الخلق. تجد نفسك قبالة لوح أبيض ناصع؛ صفحةٍ بكر، أو قماشٍ خالٍ، أو كتلةٍ صماء من حجرٍ أو خشب، أو آلةٍ موسيقيةٍ صامتة. ثم تغوص في أعماق ذاتك. تشد وتجذب وتعتصر وتستكشف بحثاً عن أشياء خامٍ زلقةٍ لا شكل لها، تسبح كأسرابٍ من سمكٍ مصنوعٍ من بخار الغمام، وتملأك بضجيجٍ حيٍّ صاخب. تتشبث بشيءٍ ما. وتجلبه إلى الوجود من أعماق فكرك، كزيوس حين أنجب أثينا من رأسه. وما إن يرى النور، حتى يتخذ شكلاً وهيئةً ملموسة. فهو يقطر على القماش، وينساب عبر قلمك، وينبثق صداه في أوتار الآلة الموسيقية، وينزلق على حافة أداة النحات ليشق طريقه على سطح الخشب أو الرخام. لقد منحتَه التماسك. لقد أخرجتَ شيئاً منظماً وجميلاً من العدم المحض. لقد لمحتَ بذلك وميضاً من الإلهي."
Vera Nazarian
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
"Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures."
"تنصت إلى الأشجار وهي تتمايل في الريح. أوراقها تبوح بالأسرار. لحاؤها يشدوا بأغنيات الأزمان الغابرة وهو يلتف حول الجذوع. وجذورها تسمي الأشياء كلها. لغتهم قد ضاعت. لكن إيماءاتهم لم تزل."
Vera Nazarian
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
"All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world."
"لكل قصة قوة غريبة بل وخطيرة. إنها تجليات للحقيقة – حقيقتك وحقيقتي. والحقيقة هي في آن واحد أروع ما في الوجود وأرهبه، مما يجعل التعامل معها شبه مستحيل. إنها مسؤولية عظيمة لدرجة أنه من الأفضل ألا تروي قصة على الإطلاق ما لم تكن واثقًا من قدرتك على أدائها حق الأداء. يجب أن تكون حذرًا للغاية، وإلا فبغير أن تدري قد تغير العالم."
Vera Nazarian
Dreams Of The Compass Rose
"It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone."
"أيسر على الغني أن يركب ذاك الجمل عبر ثقب إبرة مباشرة إلى ملكوت السماوات، من أن يتخلى بعضنا عن هاتفه الخلوي."
Vera Nazarian
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
"Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth."
"ليس التثاؤب وحده المعدي، ولا الجراثيم فحسب. فالضحكات الخافتة تنتشر من شخص لآخر، وكذلك حمرة الخجل. لكن لعل أشد ما يكون عدوى هو فعل النطق بالحقيقة."
Vera Nazarian
"Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise."
"أتودّ أن تعلم ما يخبئه لك الغد؟ إن كان جوابك بالإيجاب، فراجع نفسك. إنّ في جهل المآل أعظم محرّك للوجود. فلتذق حلاوة كل لحظة، ولتتحمّل مشقّتها، ولتتجاوزها، وهي تتوالى عليك في نسقها المقدّر، كلٌّ منها دهشة."
Vera Nazarian
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
"The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder."
"يُقال إن الشكل الهرمي يحوي العديد من الأسرار والخصائص المدهشة. ومن بينها، شعور بالدهشة."
Vera Nazarian
"Here's a new 'Blessing' for our ti"
"هنا "بركة" جديدة لزمننا."
Vera Nazarian
"I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?"
"لقد لدغتني بعوضة... مصاصة دماء في عنقي للتو. فهل يعني هذا أنني سأنهض عند حلول الليل وأصبح مزعجًا؟"
Vera Nazarian
"Every story needs to be worth telling."
Vera Nazarian
"Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!"
Vera Nazarian
"It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world. We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that c"
Vera Nazarian
"If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple."
Vera Nazarian
"Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?A: Because you know I will never answer."
Vera Nazarian
"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."
Vera Nazarian
"The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer."
Vera Nazarian
"Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth."
Vera Nazarian
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