Are
you a writer? There are as many reasons
to write as there are people who write but so often we believe that writing is something
only professionals do and this belief stops us.
What is the impulse that has you want to sit down with pen and paper and
pour your thoughts on the page?
I
write to quiet the voices of discontent and to gain access to a resonance with
the world and my place in it. I write
for the pleasure and the honesty it demands.
I write to discover the secrets buried beneath the surface and to glimpse
the perfection unveiled by listening. Why
do you write? On the other hand, why
don’t you?
Writing
for me is a process of opening to what T.S. Eliot calls "the still point of
the turning world," opening to the world of imagination where words appear
on the screen of my mind, like bubbles rising from a pond... Those words
connect me with the wholeness of my true being, with my own center in the world, where center can be
so easily lost. I love the sensation of sitting at my desk, pen in hand
or computer open, and letting those thoughts, feelings and emotions run amok,
all over the page, and then discovering in that flow the very essence of who I
am.
Whether you write every day, once in a while, for publication or simply
to know your own thoughts, those who write know that writing is a doorway
inside, to the realm of self-knowledge and inner wisdom. Come stand at
the doorway and listen; hear the quiet whisper of your own loving heart.
Come join me in a journey of self-discovery
through
Writing from the Heart
Tools for the journey: a pen, a notebook
and a prayer.
Please see
http://www.suficentereast.org/programs-3/writing-from-the-heart/ or contact the
Farm of Peace at 717-573-4722 for more information.
