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Walking Ix (ee`sh):
In the Mayan Oracle, Ix represents "integrity, heart-knowing, alignment with divine will, magician, shaman, jaguar, night seer, priest, torch bearer, magic." When I asked the Oracle what Star-Glyph represented my purpose in this website, Ix was the answer.
Holding fast to the qualities of Ix, this journal chronicles my spiritual path. On the path, I will occasionally write organized essays on spiritual subjects, those will appear under Pieces below.
Wednesday, November 06, 2002
Reading The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself: Writing & Living the Zona Rosa Way by Rosemary Daniell:
"Finally, I would come to Gertrude Stein's notion (as she is said to have responded on her deathbed) that the answer is just to ask the question. Or at least to accept that life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed."
and this
"Shame, it seemed, lay at the core of most of us, keeping us from the full flow of the present moment, and of our creativity."
and further
"I quickly found that those who successfully overcame their fears, honestly tackling my suggestion, experienced near-immediate breakthroughs in their writing and their lives."
and today I came across this:
"There was another lesson, too, that I had learned from my efforts to make piecrust: sometimes an internal giving up leads to more success than constant, goal-directed effort -- the breath of relaxation is what allows creativity to flow."
which continues a paragraph later :
"Buffie Johnson, a grand dame among New York painters, once told me the theory that she believed led to her getting most everything she had wanted in life: 'I visualize what I want, then I set it aside, confident that it will come to me without any further effort on my part. And that setting aside is the important part -- there is external will and there is internal will. But only the latter works -- external will is ineffectual.'"
I want to make that my new mantra.....along with Kevin Kline's quote that I posted earlier today :)
posted by DM # @ 22:44
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