December 16
Archibald Campbell in his journal
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What we pour love into gains power. Love a creative work, and it gains power. Love a person and he or she gains power. Your power comes in part from those who love you. But I think, most importantly of all, it comes from inside. Love your life and it gains power.
Living life in your own way, on your own terms, is mostly about loving yourself, loving your life. It is about power over yourself. Power over your fears, which certainly come up from time to time in life lived out on one edge or another. Power over your tendency to get distracted by ultimately trivial things, and focus on that which is truly important – the creation of work and the sources of inspiration that underly. For me the inspiration comes from the sense of peace I find in wild nature.
The energy of my life seems to want to disburse, to dissipate. The joy of my life – the creation of art – requires I overcome that entropy, and focus. It seems to take me a lot of internal work and struggle to counter my meandering imagination.
Imagination is both my biggest ally and my biggest foe in the creation of this work. And focus the biggest challenge.
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I've pinned this at the top of my emails to revisit and remind myself to pour more love.