Inspiration
I often approach writing practice from a place of inspiration and stillness. I do this by reading poetry or prose from authors whose profound words pull the trigger for me to start sprinting with my pen. Below are phrases and poetry that have inspired my practice.
Suffering is not personal.
~ Natalie Goldberg
We are always in transition.
~ Trungpa Rinpoche
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.”
~ Allen Ginsberg
Accept loss forever.
~ Jack Kerouac
One instant is eternity;
eternity is the now.
When you see through this one instant,
you see through the one who sees.
~ Wu-Men
The Brain-is wider than the Sky-
For-put them side by side-
The one the other will contain
With ease- and You-beside-
The Brain is deeper than the sea-
For-hold them-Blue to Blue-
The one the other will absorb-
As Sponges-Buckets-do-
The Brain is just the weight of God-
For-Heft them- Pound for Pound-
And they will differ- if they do-
As Syllable from Sound
~ Emily Dickinson
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of our hand
And Eternity in an hour.
~ William Blake
He hold binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy.
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
~ William Blake
God is a pure no-thing,
concealed in now and here:
the less you reach for him,
the more he will appear.
~ Angelus Silesius
Watching the moon at dawn,
solitary, mid-sky,
I knew myself completely:
no part left out.
~ Izumi Shikibu
When I think about the sadness of the people in this world,
Their sadness becomes mine.
~ Ryokan
Husking rice,
A child squints up
to view the moon.
~ Basho
“To sit is not enough. We have to be at the same time.”
~ Thich Nhat Hahn
“Truth is. To awaken to the truth that you are, you must be truthful. You must be honest with yourself and others. Until you tell the truth, you cannot be the truth.”
~ Paul Ferrini
