Quotes from two books I’ve been reading
These interest me for various reasons, none of which I have time to write about now. I’m off to work to grade papers today.
[W]ork—how we make things of and do things to the external world—is nearly as basic, and primeval, a factor in human happiness as family relations. The inability to write reflects the sufferer’s feeling that he or she cannot contribute to the world, cannot communicate with others in any meaningful way. (6)
Alice W. Flaherty, The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
It turns out that problems such as procrastination are usually better treated by putting the writer in the appropriate limbic or motivational state than by cognitive strategies such as making To Do lists. Most procrastinators are very aware of exactly what they are not doing. (Flaherty 16)
When I use the term feminine soul, I’m referring to a woman’s inner repository of the Divine Feminine, her deep source, her natural instinct, guiding wisdom, and power. It is everything that keeps a woman powerful and grounded in herself, complete in herself, belonging to herself, and yet connected to all that is. Connection with this inner reality is a woman’s most priceless experience. (20)
Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman’s Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1996)
[W]ork—how we make things of and do things to the external world—is nearly as basic, and primeval, a factor in human happiness as family relations. The inability to write reflects the sufferer’s feeling that he or she cannot contribute to the world, cannot communicate with others in any meaningful way. (6)
Alice W. Flaherty, The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
It turns out that problems such as procrastination are usually better treated by putting the writer in the appropriate limbic or motivational state than by cognitive strategies such as making To Do lists. Most procrastinators are very aware of exactly what they are not doing. (Flaherty 16)
When I use the term feminine soul, I’m referring to a woman’s inner repository of the Divine Feminine, her deep source, her natural instinct, guiding wisdom, and power. It is everything that keeps a woman powerful and grounded in herself, complete in herself, belonging to herself, and yet connected to all that is. Connection with this inner reality is a woman’s most priceless experience. (20)
Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman’s Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1996)
posted by Lisa at 3/29/2005 07:38:00 AM
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