{"id":2929,"date":"2012-07-14T15:52:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T19:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2019-05-01T10:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:05:25","slug":"trusting-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2929","title":{"rendered":"Trusting the Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading two books by Matthew Fox in June.\u00a0 Creativity<\/a> and Original Blessing<\/a>.\u00a0 I wrote down some quotes that were meaningful to me, and I’m pretty sure they are from Creativity, but I’ve already taken the book back to the Library (interlibrary loan) so I can’t go back and check.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreativity takes courage \u2014 courage to explore one\u2019s deepest self and to let in the depths of the world\u2019s struggles and joys, torments and agonies.\u00a0 Rilke put it this way: \u2018Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go.\u00a0 The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.\u00a0 …\u00a0 This sort of derangement, which is peculiar to us, must go into our work.\u2019\u201d p71-2
\nFox talks about imagination enlarging the soul and the heart, about the wildness that we must allow to move through us.\u00a0 He talks about how antithetical wildness is to the need to control, which Fox says is \u201cFascist.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cAll fascism wants to kill imagination and make control into God. … We have to learn to trust the universe and its creative process.\u201d\u00a0 p 65
\n\u201cThere is a river of creativity running through all things, all relationships, all beings, all corners and centers of this universe.\u00a0 We are here to join it, to get wet, to jump in, to ride these rapids, wild and sacred as they be.\u201d\u00a0 p66\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOne reason creativity takes courage is that the Holy Spirit is no small force to let into our lives.\u201d\u00a0 p74
\n\u201cAna\u00efs Nin once said: \u2018We write to taste life twice.\u2019\u00a0 I agree.\u00a0 I think we write to taste life twice, and we paint and dance and sing and compose and do all art to \u2018taste life twice.\u2019\u00a0 This opportunity to taste life twice is an invitation to go deeper, to miss nothing, to tell others, to experience the joy a second time in the telling and in handing on the depths and mystery\u00a0 of life.\u00a0 When we behold, we become so struck by what is that we want to share.\u00a0 We call that sharing \u2018art.\u2019\u00a0 …\u00a0 We tap into the work of the Creator whose power is \u2018unceasingly glowing and burning with all the Divine wealth, all the Divine sweetness, all the Divine bliss.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 (He\u2019s quoting Eckhart<\/a>) p77
\nI\u2019m really enjoying Matthew Fox.\u00a0 I feel enlarged and what? loosened?\u00a0 It\u2019s that sense of chaos, that anything could happen and that I can trust the process.\u00a0 Even the political idiocy becomes flotsam on the water.\u00a0 And I see how my \u201cSacred Sites\u201d program is an opening for the Holy Spirit to come through.\u00a0 That makes me excited again to think about doing it.
\n\u201c … becoming fruitful as a result of the gift is the only gratitude for the gift.\u201d\u00a0 (Eckhart, quoted by Fox) p78<\/p>\n

Another quote from Matthew Fox.\u00a0 It was on a loose piece of paper.
\n\u201cThere are practical ramifications when we experience the Divine Nothingness.\u00a0 We become more ample channels for grace to pour through, less self-conscious and more trusting and certainly less in control.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 p 169<\/p>\n

Learning to trust the process has been a long journey for me.\u00a0 Having grown up in an alcoholic family, and feeling terror on a regular basis, had the consequence that I was very afraid of loss of control.\u00a0 I think Kripalu<\/a> was the first place where I was taught to “trust the process.”\u00a0 From Painting from the Source<\/a> and authentic movement<\/a> I began to learn more and more how to let go and begin to trust the process.\u00a0 Finally, doing Somatic Experiencing gave me a lot of experience of letting go, and learning that the process CAN be trusted.<\/p>\n

My paintings<\/a> from Painting from the Source<\/p>\n

“Sacred Sites in Ancient Keltia<\/a>” is an audio-visual program using slides that I took on three trips to the British Isles, and a musical background composed by my friend Beverly Woods<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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