When true love’s gone and doom hangs over head When life runs like a river to the sea Then shall I take new lovers to my bed And with their carnal touch consoled be?
When my love lies and breaks my tender heart. When life is grey and rocks bestrew my path. Then, shall I my life of evil start, And on the world shall I bestow my wrath?
When true love lies and wrecks all loyalty. When puzzlement makes all my world seem mad. Then I shall upend causality And let myself do deeds which make me glad.
For I have love’s own child inside my soul And I shall tend her till at last she’s whole
I envy shy black people because they can blush secretly
And I envy Chinese people because they don’t go yellow when they feel sick
I envy Jewish people because they enjoy arguments.Yes that is too general a statement but don’t let’s argue about it. Unless you are Jesus Christ. Did Jesus
argue? Get the Bibles out.
I envy philosophers because they know what distinguishes an argument from a quarrel
I don’t want to be a Catholic because they believe in hell. Can you still go to hell even if you don’t believe in it
Why does nobody mention limbo anymore?
Why do I have to ask questions when other people know by intuition?
You are going to do something creative. So how do you get ready? You are hoping for some new ideas some connections.
Well suppose you are going to bake a cake the first thing that you do is what?
You have to clear a space on your work surface or table to put you your baking bowl and you have to make sure the oven is empty
The very first thing you must do is to wash up in case the cake tin all the bowls you need all there being soaked and there’s no room for anything else so you wash up up.and put these things away and now you have a space in which you can set about creating the cake of your dreams
Supposing do you want to paint a picture or write a poem.
Our mind is full of ideas,of people we’ve just seen or a unfulfilled desires thoughts about food clothing who knows jealousy envy love
Well you can’t create when your mind is full like that.
That is what Marion Milner discovered that if she said
I am nothing I have nothing I want nothing
This freed her from the buzzing cloud of flies inside my head. And then thoughts and ideas from the deeper parts of the mind can come into the consciousness.
She calls this the gesture of
Inner Poverty.
By giving up for a time all the things that occupy our thoughts we create some space for new ideas.
I can’t guarantee that they will be any good but there’s a good chance of it if we follow up a little ideas with some hard work.
I think it might be rather like the desireless that is part of Buddhism.
Saying I am nothing is not self derogatory. Nobody is nothing o and if you believe in God you will believe that everybody has a soul equal two other people’s in the eyes and God regardless of your wealth or status. It’s it’s moving away from constant occupation with egocentric concerns which can impede perception.
Because these concerns are a barrier to our vision.
This is just one way of looking at perception and creativity
I burned eight pans while I daydreamed in grief I meant to cook my dinner while I wrote My attention was too sparse,a narrow brief I burned eight pans while I swam in deep grief This war on objects makes my mind a thief Where once love lived, I see his empty coat. I burned eight pans while knocked about by grief I tried to cook my supper, I saw smoke
How my heart sings 