Nurturing The Song Within
Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however, is how we can gain access
to the potentials of knowledge contained in the depth of us, how we can achieve increased capacities of direct intuition and enlarged awareness.
- Ira Progoff, At A Journal Workshop
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Below, the most recent post.
Henry James, Master Novelist, Experienced Failure Too
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.
- Polybius
According to Wikipedia, Henry James is "considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language." His work has influenced writers as diverse as James Baldwin and Cynthia Ozick. When he wrote the journal entries below, his novels weren’t selling, and at the opening performance of his latest play, the reviews were negative and the audience hurled vegetables at the stage. The next day, he wrote in his journal:
“Produce; produce again; produce again better than ever and all will be well.”
In another of his journal entries, he recorded a particularly poetic description of what it means to enter the sacred realm of creating art.
The consolation, the dignity, the joy of life are that discouragements and lapses, depressions and darknesses, come to one only as one stands without —- I mean without the luminous paradise of art. As soon as I really re-enter it -— cross the loved threshold -— stand in the high chamber, and the gardens divine — the whole realm widens out again before me and around me —- the air of life fills my lungs —- the light of achievement flushes over all the place, and I believe, I see, I do.
- Henry James, in his journalSuccess is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
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Below, a two page spread from the upcoming Heron Dance Art Journal, Nurturing The Song Within, to be published in March.
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