Phil Cousineau - Stoking the Creative Fires (2008)

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Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.

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Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

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Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light.

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Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic nature of the inward journey of creativity, which is by nature back and down - back in time and down into the soul's depths.

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Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

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The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do.

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Are you up to the challenge? Are you going to be a reproduction or an original? Will you strive to be innovative or imitative? Are you ready to take your turn on the page, turn up the heat, turn it on?

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But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire... there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life.

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