HowIt All Happens

How it all happens: 

every morning I write, sometimes with an idea in mind, but most often from whatever first words are given and then allowing inspiration to lead from there. In the moments just after meditation I feel most spacious, open, and words seem more apt appear and steer me in the right direction. So my morning agenda is clear, a familiar creative process, the patience for words and inspiration to arrive - and everything from there, how it all happens, it's a mystery now. 

I have no idea how writing happens. 

let's talk a little about non-doing, or really the non-doer, and how it ties in with creativity and inspiration. I think this offers the clearest explanation for how writing occurs, that everything needed for writing appears without any effort of my own, there's no real author here, only an aspect of the process, and for me to lay claim to ideas and inspiration provides more credit than deserved. The truth is that every word is honestly received, they're given, and in the clearest moment of inspiration I've lost all identity as an author and there's simply the flow of creativity, consciousness in a stream of activity. That's how it all happens, just like that, writing happens on its own.

of course later on, after the writing is finished, I'll claim the words as my own, that's when the author actually appears, a sense of doership and accomplishment return. It's funny to consider the pride that shows for something that so largely happened without me. This isn't to say that I wasn't involved, I'm not hinting here of channeled writing, but more clearly to show that the entire act of writing is a process, that life itself is a process, and that it all happens through the involvement of the entire universe as a whole, every aspect being a key player for just these few words to appear. 

that's how it all happens. 

to believe that there is a sole author responsible for these words discounts the entirety of this affair, it's laying claim to a process that really began at the dawn of time, before that really, to whatever first idea of energy caused that singularity of existence to expand in inspiration, bringing space and time along in the creation of its reach. That's the true beginning of these very words, it's all a process of that one original creative expression - and that's exactly how it all happens. 

~

Peace, Eric