Where do your own real thoughts come from? How can we access them? From what source does our true, authentic self speak?*
Steven Pressfield

How does your ruling reason manage itself? For in that is the key to every thing. Whatever else remains, be it in the power of your choice or not, it is but a corpse and smoke.**
Marcus Aurelius

We have so many thoughts running through our heads –
All the time, thoughts thoughts thoughts.

Take a moment to notice them –
They’re happening without any help from you or me.

There are other thoughts, though,
The ones that belong to this Noticer of thoughts.

Notice what feeds these thoughts, create habits for
exploring and expanding these sources.

When we write these important thoughts down, we separate them from
all the others, to play with them, towards the sentences we want to give life to.

Who knows what will then turn up in
our words and phrases and sentences.

Discovering your Self in language is always an epiphany, even if finding the worlds to describe your inner reality can be an agonising process.^

Revision isn’t only the act of composition.
Revision is thinking applied to language,
An opening and reopening of discovery,
A search for the sentence that says the thing you had
no idea you would say.^^

*Steve Pressfield’s Do the Work;
**Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic;
^Bessel Van de Kolk’s Your Body Keeps the Score;
^^Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Several short sentences about writing.