INVISIBLE SPACE "arrogance of belonging" August 19, 2018

JUST AS BREATH REQUIRES INVISIBLE SPACE
OF THE GREAT NOTHING
PHYSCIAL SURROUNDINGS MUST ALSO COMPLY
 
SIMPLY BE BEFORE PERCEPTIONS’ BELIEF
IN/OF/AS ORIGINAL SILENCE BEFORE SOUND

BE-LIVED ALWAYS, ONLY NOW
AS THOUGH IT IS SO
=
INVISIBLE SPACE
WITHIN & WITHOUT
IS ALL THAT IS
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12:53 AM-8/19/18

WORDLESS WORDS
SPEECHLESS SPEECH
+
WORDLESS SPEECH
SPEECHLESS WORDS
=
ORIGINAL TRUTH OF BEING
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2:28 AM-8/19/18

​AFTERNOON

Waking up to your Aliveness
​- Elizabeth Gilbert
​
Creativity is the relationship between a human being and the
mysteries of inspiration...

We are all capable of brushing up against
a sense of mystery and inspiration. 
We may be able to draw nearer to that source
than we think,
being gently propelled by some force,
​something not "me."

"Creative living" is living a life that is driven more strongly
by curiosity than be fear.
[But] you won't be able to create anything
interesting out of your life
if you don't believe in "creative entitlement." 
This doesn't mean behaving like a princess,
or acting
as though the world owes you anything. 

"Creative entitlement"
simply means believing that you are allowed to be here,
and that
merely by being here,
you are allowed to have a voice,
​ and a vision
of your own.

The poet David Whyte calls this sense of creative entitlement
"the arrogance of belonging",
and claims that it is absolutely vital
to cultivate if you wish to interact more vividly with life.

Without this "arrogance of belonging",
you will never be able to take
any creative risks,
without it, you will never push yourself out
of the suffocating insulation of personal safety
​ and into the frontiers of the
beautiful and the unexpected.

The "arrogance of belonging" is not about egotism or self-absorption.

In a strange way it is a divine force
that will actually take you out of
yourself and allow you to engage more fully with life. 
Because often
what keeps you from "creative living"
is your self-absorption, i.e.
your self-doubt, your self-disgust,
your self-judgment, your crushing
sense of self-protection. 

The "arrogance of belonging" pulls you out
of the the darkest depths of self-hatred,
not by saying "I am the greatest!"
but merely saying "I am here" -
​
the simple entitlement to exist and
express yourself.

Your soul will mobilize accordingly. 
It will mobilize ecstatically,
because this is what your Soul [Being] was born for. 
Your Soul has been waiting for you
​ to wake up to your own existence
[your Aliveness] for years. 
[Being wants to express ItSelf through you in creative ways.]

Elizabeth Gilbert
Author of Eat Pray Love
​
above excerpt from: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear 
Waking up to your Aliveness
​- Elizabeth Gilbert

https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2018/08/waking-up-to-your-aliveness-elizabeth.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MysticMeandering+%28Mystic+Meandering%29

The constant drive toward changing, toward improving or becoming must end.
In its place, must be the yearning for That which never changes.
Only after thoughts arise does the world comes into being.
The mirage does not disappear even after knowing it to be a mirage.
Individuls expecting great changes will ilkely meet with disappointment.

Rather than focuing on what needs changing,
​ turn the attention to what cannot change.

August 19
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