The items you get to keep are love for the work, will to finish, and passion to serve the ethical, creative Muse.*
Steven Pressfield
five phases of creation: inspiration, concentration, organisation, implementation, and sustenance**
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
When we leave our ego at the door, as
Steven Pressfield imagines,
We are left with much.
Visiting the home of the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio,
I stooped to enter his studio, the low doorway being
a physical reminder to begin by humbling myself.
Beyond lay a magical space, and
through humility lies unalloyed
love, and will, and passion to do what we must.
We all have different work, each
with an alternative low entrance we can
choose to lower ourselves through.
And on completing our work, Clarissa Pinkola Estés reminds us to
sustain ourselves— perhaps in many small ways, be delighted and
thankful as celebration, and then provide yourself rest.
*Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work;
**Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run With the Wolves.
THIN|SILENCE 