This quote from The Creative Act by Rick Rubin, referencing creative inspiration, made me think:
How do we pick up on a signal that can neither be heard nor be defined? The answer is not to look for it. Nor do we attempt to predict or analyze our way into it. Instead, we create an open space that allows it. A space so free of the normal overpacked condition of our minds that it functions as a vacuum. Drawing down the ideas that the universe is making available.
A few days after reading this, I wrote about my struggle with working too much. As I wrote, I realized that as much as I’d like to have more free time, I’m afraid of going to a place where I feel the lack in my life, because that is scary and painful. Then I wrote that maybe going to that place will create a vacuum to bring something new into my life. When I reread my writing, I realized this was a reference to the Rick Rubin quote, popping up with a bit of a different meaning, but it resonated.
Maybe there’s something there.
