I am reading Robert Bly’s book “Iron John.”
Here are a few paragraphs that caught my attention.
“If a human being takes an action, the soul takes an action….. The soul itself which does nothing if you do nothing; but if you light a fire, it chops wood; if you make a boat, it becomes the ocean.”
”When an artist is at work on a painting, images he or she had never thought of arrive instead of the images the artist planned to set down.”
“ The sacred response depends on a serious decisive effort made by a man or woman.”
The key is the serious decisive effort….and I suppose the knowing of who walks with us.
Imagine the free will to decide how to move and the soul responds.
The Universe is waiting for us so it can respond in kind. If you are not building a boat, no need for an ocean, if you are not in your studio playing with fabrics and design, an inspired image will not fall out!
How exciting to know that our serious decisive efforts are the key.
Maya Angelou on the radio yesterday said, “We are equal to the mountain we face.”
In my experience that is true, you have to trust that you will conquer the mountain you face.
Maya also said that the greatest virtue is courage, for without courage you can’t maintain the other virtues. I am not even certain what the ‘other virtues’ are, but I do know that I am learning to become very courageous.
And one more thing I heard yesterday, and I believe it was from Carly Simon. She was asked if she was in a good place in life, and she responded that she doesn’t believe you ever get to a good place and those that say they are, are lying. Instead she says that she has a mixed life.
Meaning that it is ever changing and there are ups and downs and all in between.
I would say reality is a mixed life.
I M Perfect lady 