Emma Cohen

To live and work by inspiration you have to stop thinking.

You have to hold your mind still in order to hear inspiration clearly.

The conscious mind is awareness of the sublime and it tells us what to do by showing us when we are off the track.

Obedience to the conscious mind carries us forward to greater

awareness.

Disobedience of the conscious mind carries us backward to less

awareness.

With more accurate obedience we become rapidly more aware of the sublime: of beauty and happi... See more

If the Lord doesn't make me remember, I will gain just by tiring myself and getting worse headache for the sake of obedience-even though no benefit will be drawn from what I say.

When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything wi

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At every moment we are helpless and defeated and at every moment we are commanded forward by inspiration.

There is no choice while we are on the true path.

It is he who, through the operation of the dark night, withdraws himself in order not to be loved as the treasure is by the miser.