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I am in the agony and ecstasy of writing as a spiritual practice.
There are three rules for writing as a spiritual practice: Don't write what you know.
You can't write what you don't know. You must write...
You are damned if you do, you are damned if you don't.
But authentic spiritual practice is about living outside the system, any system.
Running from practice to practice, genre to genre, even religion to religion, keeps us from ever having to take off our shoes and stand on holy ground.
When Moses meets God at the burning bush, the first thing God commands is that Moses remove his sandals. It is the most important commandment in the entire Hebrew Bible.
Remove your shoes, standing barefoot in the wilderness of God, the wilderness where God is met.
If you stay with a spiritual practice long enough, it will knock your shoes off...Stay a bit longer and your socks disintegrate, and you are left barefoot on Holy ground.
And when you are- write that!..."Don't cease seeking until you find."
When you find you will be troubled. When you are troubled, you will marvel. And when you marvel, you will reign over all. He could be talking about writing as a spiritual practice...
Keep writing no matter what comes up.
Eventually you will find something in that writing. Cohen remind us that there is a crack in everything, that's how the lights gets in. Mark's Christ isn't satisfied with cracks, he opts for shattering all that is left is light.
So you write until you are crucified, until all your expectations are shattered, until you are completely forsaken. And then you are marvel. You are marvelling this and that, for this and that are all there is...
You are that...Once you're free to write what you write, the writing can't be anything else.
You are writing to be free...No one can do it for you.
Reading van change and improve how we feel and behave.
I am in the agony and ecstasy of writing as a spiritual practice.
There are three rules for writing as a spiritual practice: Don't write what you know.
You can't write what you don't know. You must write...
You are damned if you do, you are damned if you don't.
But authentic spiritual practice is about living outside the system, any system.
Running from practice to practice, genre to genre, even religion to religion, keeps us from ever having to take off our shoes and stand on holy ground.
When Moses meets God at the burning bush, the first thing God commands is that Moses remove his sandals. It is the most important commandment in the entire Hebrew Bible.
Remove your shoes, standing barefoot in the wilderness of God, the wilderness where God is met.
If you stay with a spiritual practice long enough, it will knock your shoes off...Stay a bit longer and your socks disintegrate, and you are left barefoot on Holy ground.
And when you are- write that!..."Don't cease seeking until you find."
When you find you will be troubled. When you are troubled, you will marvel. And when you marvel, you will reign over all. He could be talking about writing as a spiritual practice...
Keep writing no matter what comes up.
Eventually you will find something in that writing. Cohen remind us that there is a crack in everything, that's how the lights gets in. Mark's Christ isn't satisfied with cracks, he opts for shattering all that is left is light.
So you write until you are crucified, until all your expectations are shattered, until you are completely forsaken. And then you are marvel. You are marvelling this and that, for this and that are all there is...
You are that...Once you're free to write what you write, the writing can't be anything else.
You are writing to be free...No one can do it for you.
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