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If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it away than to imagine how it would have worked or tasted. —Zeynab Izadyar
Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things:
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”
Body is a Labyrinth. Body is the red thread. Through it you go to find what feels truthful, real. You bring back the lifewater and a calcified memory of what kills truths and ideas. The red thread is the map: for each time you enter the labyrinth—the path will be rearranged.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
You reach the final turn and end up at the central point—the eye of the labyrinth. Here runs a basin of an underground stream. No one has ever found out where this water comes from. The sound of this stream pierces through your heart. Your palm penetrates the current and you pull up your hand to your mouth to taste the spring water. Another time... See more
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
To write is to walk a labyrinth. To make art is to walk a labyrinth.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
All of this is a practice and act of fine-tuning the feeling instrument. Re-sensitizing the body, giving permission to feel and discern.
Permission to feel and discern .
Permission to feel and discern .
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
Your readers will also sense the same flatness when you write something that does not stir a bone in your own home.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
Writing that is not yours will feel flat
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
Writing truth will open valves of new energy . It will liberate parts of you from being captive for many years. It takes a lot of psychic and physical energy to resist truth. It chronically exhausts the body. It wears off your tissues and bones. When we move against truth of the body and truth of the soul, it brings illness.