Walking around the block before sunrise, I saw a box with a "FREE" sign, and there it was, waiting for me. It had been many years since I read it, and remembered just bits of it, mostly remember that I loved it, and that some of its stories moved me deeply.
Here are some of the things that have resonated with me at this time.
"Rather than chair and tables, I preferred the ground, trees and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of god." p.3
"It comes from the written and the spoken word; sometimes a word, a sentence or a poem or a story, is so resonant, so right, it causes us to remember, at least for an instant, what substance we are really made from, and where is our true home". p.5
About Wild Woman:
"Because in the beginning of retrieving our relationship with her she can turn to smoke in an instant, by naming her we create for her a territory of thought and feeling within us. then she will come, and if valued, she will stay." p.7
About the Wild Creative Force:
"The wild creative force flows into whatever beds we have for it, those we are born with as those that we dig with our own hands. We don't have to fill them, we only have to build them.
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"In archetypal lore there is the idea there is the idea that if one prepares a special psychic place, then the being, the creative force, the soul source, will hear of it, sense its way into it, and inhabit that place." p.298
"Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, is fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative work, image, idea, fills us up, inspires us to our own creative work." p.298
"...preparing a fitting place induces the creative force to advance." p.298
"Perhaps one is afraid, for the waters are deep, the night is dark, and the way is very long; just the right conditions needed for development of one's original precious gifts." p.299
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