You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers this morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.
Joseph Campbell, ‘The Power of Myth’
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I liked this reminder. It is so hard to hear your own voice, even under ideal circumstances. But with the clamor of daily life, media, to do lists, it can be impossible. Carving out some space – literally and figuratively- is essential. Now I have to find a space!