Anna St. Clair

Whereas I found that if my main motivation is to “accomplish” something or get a pitch accepted or get a poem accepted or whatever, then I end up chasing this idea of what a writer is supposed to be, instead of going back to the roots of myself. Ultimately, for me, poetry is just about being in communion with ideas and thoughts and trying to, yeah,

The more self-determining you are, the more God-like you are.

A practical example of being more self-determinate is going beyond our own initial world. The practice of being open-minded, the experience of questioning ones initial opinions or desires or emotions, and looking for a better basis for ones beliefs and actions is a form of rational trans