Writers & Writing
Think back to a time just a few thousand years ago. Talking, writing (such as it was) and music-making was with friends. Now it is usually with strangers.
Who am I writing this to? I don’t know you. And who am I? You don’t know me.
How differently, more openly and lovingly, we sing to friends than
We have found that if people direct their positive communication out toward others, even if it is just counting numbers, it will raise your Life Energy. Conversely, when they do not direct it out to anyone—when they just put it “into the air”—your energy is not raised.
I look at the blank piece of paper on the desk before me. It is all yin, all passive. And then at my pen as it starts to write—as it starts to write this sentence you are reading now. The writing is all yang, all active. Then I stop writing and take in that what
A writer writes from a need to express his inner self to so benefit his readers, whereas an author writes selfishly to benefit himself through the manipulation of his readers. Most so-called writers are really authors, as are most actors, artists, and musicians, however skilled they may be.
From the root GHDHEM, of the earth, are derived humus, homo, human, humanity. Shipley points out that it was commonly held that abominable was also so derived, but this is not the case. So “abhominable” is not the correct spelling, even though it was used by earlier writers – by Shakespeare, for example, 18 times.
Virtually all poetry has a lung meridian problem, what I call “Wonderland” – an escape from reality into fantasy.
“It is impossible to say just what I mean!” – Eliot Words, declared Chuang Tzu, are only the guests of reality.