Welcome to the Place of Emergence. Welcome to the Abyss: Breakthrough tip for the week of 10/27/2014

By Mary Sojourner on in Breakthrough Tip of the Week.

Welcome to the Place of Emergence. Welcome to the Abyss.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

                           —Thomas Merton

 

For the writer who asked me the purpose of taking time to do nothing:

We reflect in our writing the gold and dross of how we move through our lives. You may want to unclutter, to let loose, to go out into the unknown to find the beating heart of what you believe.

Doing nothing is the most powerful alchemy for most contemporary Americans.

The self-help guru Byron Katie writes: “The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterrupted moment.”

You sit still. Love emerges You want to move the love you feel out to others. You are a writer. Writing = love. Love = writing. Doing nothing = love = writing.

If you want to teach yourself the purpose of doing nothing, do nothing for an hour.

 

Please write and tell me what you discover…

 

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