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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 642377" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>Things I find helpful.</p><p></p><p>"Be old enough and patient enough for kinds of love, seasons of it; be quiet in your soul so that when happiness comes again, if it ever does, you will know."</p><p></p><p>Anne Rice</p><p></p><p>***</p><p></p><p>"Sybil remembered the crucifixions of her past, and by each of them, where she herself hung and screamed and writhed, she saw the golden halo and the hands of the Fool holding and easing her, and heard his voice, murmuring peace."</p><p></p><p>Charles Williams</p><p>The Greater Trumps</p><p></p><p><em>This has been the imagery of this time, for me.</em></p><p></p><p>***</p><p></p><p>"You are not involved in word games.</p><p></p><p>You are fighting for your spirit, your sanity, your soul."</p><p></p><p>I don't know where I got that one.</p><p></p><p>***</p><p></p><p>"In the morning, I found my courage.</p><p></p><p>Man, would I need it."</p><p></p><p>Dean Koontz</p><p>The City</p><p></p><p>***</p><p> </p><p>"Love is not a victory march; it's a cold and it's a broken halleluiah."</p><p></p><p>Leonard Cohen</p><p></p><p>***</p><p></p><p>"Faith is not, contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out right or wrong, like a gambler's bet. It is an act, an intention, a project; something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of Time and right into Eternity, which is not the end of time or unending Time, but timelessness, that old, Eternal Now."</p><p></p><p>Russ</p><p></p><p>***</p><p></p><p>And finally MWM, this:</p><p></p><p><u>Riding the Dragon:</u></p><p><u>The Artist's Way at Work</u></p><p></p><p>Julia Cameron</p><p></p><p>If you have never read <u>The Artist's Way</u>, one of the most helpful suggestions I have ever received is to begin something called Morning Pages. What you do is write three pages ~ no more, no less, one side only ~ every morning when you first get up. No editing, no rewriting, no "making nice." No one is going to see this but you ~ and you may decide never to look at them again, either. But what this process will do is force your mind to come together and express what it is that's working around beneath conscious thought.</p><p></p><p>That is why we have to do three pages whether we feel like it or not.</p><p></p><p>That is why we have to stop at three pages, whether we feel like it or not.</p><p></p><p>A little of the work can be lists of things you need to do that day or whatever. Most of it is chain of consciousness. It doesn't even have to be punctuated correctly.</p><p></p><p>:O)</p><p></p><p>The remainder of this book is about change. About focus. About where we want to let ourselves go. It is based on an ancient Chinese scroll about seven dragons. The scroll is a masterpiece, and describes, so they say, what it is to rise through the levels of consciousness or spirit or fear or whatever we wish to call the process seemingly happening to each of us as we live these lives that are both our possessions and our creations.</p><p></p><p>Know that I am holding you, at prayer for you, celebrating the harshness and the reward of it for you as you come through this, MWM. </p><p></p><p>They say the most comforting words in all the world are these: "All shall be well; and all manner of things shall be well."</p><p></p><p>I can't remember who said that, either. A female Christian mystic, I know that, but I don't remember which one.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 642377, member: 17461"] Things I find helpful. "Be old enough and patient enough for kinds of love, seasons of it; be quiet in your soul so that when happiness comes again, if it ever does, you will know." Anne Rice *** "Sybil remembered the crucifixions of her past, and by each of them, where she herself hung and screamed and writhed, she saw the golden halo and the hands of the Fool holding and easing her, and heard his voice, murmuring peace." Charles Williams The Greater Trumps [I]This has been the imagery of this time, for me.[/I] *** "You are not involved in word games. You are fighting for your spirit, your sanity, your soul." I don't know where I got that one. *** "In the morning, I found my courage. Man, would I need it." Dean Koontz The City *** "Love is not a victory march; it's a cold and it's a broken halleluiah." Leonard Cohen *** "Faith is not, contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out right or wrong, like a gambler's bet. It is an act, an intention, a project; something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of Time and right into Eternity, which is not the end of time or unending Time, but timelessness, that old, Eternal Now." Russ *** And finally MWM, this: [U]Riding the Dragon: The Artist's Way at Work[/U] Julia Cameron If you have never read [U]The Artist's Way[/U], one of the most helpful suggestions I have ever received is to begin something called Morning Pages. What you do is write three pages ~ no more, no less, one side only ~ every morning when you first get up. No editing, no rewriting, no "making nice." No one is going to see this but you ~ and you may decide never to look at them again, either. But what this process will do is force your mind to come together and express what it is that's working around beneath conscious thought. That is why we have to do three pages whether we feel like it or not. That is why we have to stop at three pages, whether we feel like it or not. A little of the work can be lists of things you need to do that day or whatever. Most of it is chain of consciousness. It doesn't even have to be punctuated correctly. :O) The remainder of this book is about change. About focus. About where we want to let ourselves go. It is based on an ancient Chinese scroll about seven dragons. The scroll is a masterpiece, and describes, so they say, what it is to rise through the levels of consciousness or spirit or fear or whatever we wish to call the process seemingly happening to each of us as we live these lives that are both our possessions and our creations. Know that I am holding you, at prayer for you, celebrating the harshness and the reward of it for you as you come through this, MWM. They say the most comforting words in all the world are these: "All shall be well; and all manner of things shall be well." I can't remember who said that, either. A female Christian mystic, I know that, but I don't remember which one. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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