Love your story of finally finally forgetting about your screenplay and then boom! the way forward came clear. What the mystics say ... it's our 'self' that obscures the whole universe. One of my favourite quotes of this type comes from the American writer, Jim Harrison. Hey, I think I can find that quote ... stand by ...
"Oddly enough by the afternoon the world became transcendentally beautiful as I shuffled along the creek and up my favourite canyon. I was in tears at the splendour of certain ordinary rocks and the mesquite and Emory oak trees clinging to the cliff faces near which an old female mountain lion lives. During the extremity of pain the soul barks out fearful clouds of stinking effluvia. When the hours of pain pass you are at least temporarily rid of your ego and the silly content of your personality. There is nothing to interfere with the luminosity of what is always there…"
Love your story of finally finally forgetting about your screenplay and then boom! the way forward came clear. What the mystics say ... it's our 'self' that obscures the whole universe. One of my favourite quotes of this type comes from the American writer, Jim Harrison. Hey, I think I can find that quote ... stand by ...
"Oddly enough by the afternoon the world became transcendentally beautiful as I shuffled along the creek and up my favourite canyon. I was in tears at the splendour of certain ordinary rocks and the mesquite and Emory oak trees clinging to the cliff faces near which an old female mountain lion lives. During the extremity of pain the soul barks out fearful clouds of stinking effluvia. When the hours of pain pass you are at least temporarily rid of your ego and the silly content of your personality. There is nothing to interfere with the luminosity of what is always there…"