For writing practice to be complete, we must give it away: the effort, the results, and identification with the results. Much of the happiness that total absorption in an activity brings is nullified by the belief that it is ours — that we know what we are doing. But anything we hold onto causes disharmony.
Dedicating your writing and your efforts to write resituates your primary intention within a larger context. You become a vessel through which creative spirit flows. Without this resituation (letting-go), one leaves tracks.
Whether it be a story, a poem, a haiku, a letter …
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…words go beyond the wordless essence when they (as a refuge and a way) no longer belong to you.
-Gail Sher, One Continuous Mistake
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A good walker leaves no tracks.