process

"On the Weirdness of
The Creative Impulse:

Earth, Fire, Water
If you would create
from original self...

See that rock over there?
Be impatient with the rock...
and nothing happens.

Say, 'Nice rock,
nice rock,'
and nothing happens.

Stare at rock
without end.
Nothing happens.

Pick up rock--
take it over there.
Stare at it.
Pick rock back up
and move it back
where it began.
Nothing
comes of it.

But/and...
Be gently
angry with the rock,
bust it to pieces
and add peaceful
water
to make clay--

Then fashion
the clay
into a vessel
that will hold
the peace of water
from what was
once
wroth by anger.

This is one
of the most
important lessons
of creating...
Impatience
and all the rest
too often
go nowhere.

A gentled
anger often has
true potential
if broken down,
and transformed
in
and to
peace.

I know you know
from soul outward
what this means.

The soul
ever knows
how earth,
fire,
and water
need
one another."

Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes