There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

– Martha Graham

The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.

– Thucydides 460 B.C. – 395 B.C.

Notes

Spiritual homework for developing thumos for robustness and a findablility

  1. For 30 days block out at least 30 minutes in your calendar and have a place where you can write uninterrupted.
  2. Write with the following intention: you are writing to invoke thumos in your body and in the bodies of whoever reads your words.
  3. When you find yourself drifting away from that intention, pause and find your way back to it. You are not going to know what words will come from you. Allow yourself to be surprised. Allow yourself to be afraid. Allow aliveness to fill your body.
  4. Write with two constraints: no paragraphs and all passages have to be under 200 words.

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