Your great mistake is to act the drama

as if you were alone. As if life

were a progressive and cunning crime

with no witness to the tiny hidden

transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny

the intimacy of your surroundings…

via Everything is Waiting for You — David Whyte.

At the very core of creativity there seems to be an admonition that says, “Your own way is essential.” This is true even in a traditional master-student relationship. The word “expert” seems to be like a fog in which we lose ourselves. We feel our lack before we have done the essential work of touching our own inner longing, in other words, we put the cart before the horse. Creativity has much more to do with giving ourselves over to our deepest longings than it does with giving ourselves over to any kind of strategy.

via MenWeb – Men’s Issues: Poetry and Personal Passion by David Whyte.