I love the thought-provoking question. And here is what you have provoked out of me. My sense is that most of what I "create" I don't really create. My writing seems to come through me rather than from me. I find myself writing things that I have never thought or that I think I would have never thought.
At the same time, I agree with your idea that I influence my creation and it surely influences me. Although it feels like the writing comes through me, it comes through ME! And there is no way I can 'transcribe' it without putting my spin on it, my style. At the same time, my fon dest wish is that future readers will be influenced by the writing as much or maybe more than I am. If so, they are in for a treat!
Thanks, Jerry. Other writers feel the same way. They are just the vessel through which the writing flows. I know that sometimes the writing is easier than others. And that the words come out of nowhere.
Good question. In terms of me and my work, in the end, when my time has come to shirk off this mortal coil, I will leave behind books and a large body of work. But when I'm gone, they will mean nothing, just fragments of a dream. All that matters in the end is love, and it will have had many avenues of expression in this life. However, in the process, in the dream, there is no separation in the doer, the doing, and the done.
And that goes for the Creator as well. Only the Creator is important, for only the Creator is eternal. However, when that is realized, all of creation is important because the Doer and the Doing and the Done are One.
I love the thought-provoking question. And here is what you have provoked out of me. My sense is that most of what I "create" I don't really create. My writing seems to come through me rather than from me. I find myself writing things that I have never thought or that I think I would have never thought.
At the same time, I agree with your idea that I influence my creation and it surely influences me. Although it feels like the writing comes through me, it comes through ME! And there is no way I can 'transcribe' it without putting my spin on it, my style. At the same time, my fon dest wish is that future readers will be influenced by the writing as much or maybe more than I am. If so, they are in for a treat!
Here is some one you might enjoy. https://open.substack.com/pub/janakastagnaro
Thanks, Jerry. Other writers feel the same way. They are just the vessel through which the writing flows. I know that sometimes the writing is easier than others. And that the words come out of nowhere.
Good question. In terms of me and my work, in the end, when my time has come to shirk off this mortal coil, I will leave behind books and a large body of work. But when I'm gone, they will mean nothing, just fragments of a dream. All that matters in the end is love, and it will have had many avenues of expression in this life. However, in the process, in the dream, there is no separation in the doer, the doing, and the done.
And that goes for the Creator as well. Only the Creator is important, for only the Creator is eternal. However, when that is realized, all of creation is important because the Doer and the Doing and the Done are One.