Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.” She simply must put her foot down and say no to half of what she believes she “should” be doing. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility (or over-respectability) to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. “I’ve seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write… and you know it’s a funny thing about housecleaning… it never comes to an end. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.” “I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.” -Dr. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.” The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. The key question causes germination of consciousness. “Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation.
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