A Peak Into My Reservoir As Words Pen Themselves To Me Like Tatoos’

I have been watching Dr. James Hollis and found myself overwhelmingly attracted to his ideals and teachings. Here are a few thoughts and quotes on how he feels inspired to write.

“Writing is a process that wants to find its expression through me! There is a pressure and a nudging to write. It’s an urging from within! What wants to come into the world through us requires a certain submission and discipline of the ego. Writing is not a planned process, it’s a received process.”

After listening to him, I felt company in my hidden inspiration to write. I felt a sense of exposure, because there is someone else who feels what I feel when I am inspired to write! I pray daily for the capacity to handle this inspiration to write! It can be overwhelmingly exciting and draining simultaneously!

Writers have egos and often our inspiration can be overshadowed by the desire for others to pat us on the back and tell us they got something from our writings. But, when writing is who you are, you just want to do it, whether there is recognition or not.

We often have to keep our ego in check because it can get too big! The depth of inspiration and the effect it has can be addictive and overwhelming simultaneously.

There is a place within us that is an endless resource of inspiration. It feels like your mind lives in a library of untapped potential. Words dance before you and tap dance on your heart when you get the slightest inspiration.

Like Dr. Hollis said, “Writing is a process that wants to find its expression through me! There is a pressure and a nudging to write. It’s an urging from within! What wants to come into the world through us requires a certain submission and discipline of the ego.”

Words are things, they are living expressions of life and when you encounter them, there is a sort of reverence and awe. Every word you hear is filled with potential to become a book, a post, a blog, a journal, or whatever platform you are most inspired by, words are a living inspiration!

Just writing this post has sparked a depth of inspiration inside of me and the words seem to just flow. I listened to an audible book this week by Cole Arthur Riley called, “Black Liturgies”. There are chapters in this book called “Artistry” and another called “Calling”.

“How much does one’s artistry require one’s belief in it? My words that have so often moved others still haven’t moved me.” “Cale Arthur Riley”

This is a powerful egoic exchange that many writers encounter after the project is done and inspiration for the piece of art has been engaged and is now a tangible thing. While you’re in the stream of inspiration you feel enormous power and connection. But like any mother who has given birth, you start to feel separation anxiety and a loss. It’s close to a death in connection that can never happen to that degree again until you give birth again.

With every pregnancy and every birth there is this full circle of emotions because words are living beings who just want to find expression through you!

This is how writers feel when they give birth to a book of words. While you’re immersed in the writing process, there is a euphoria that cannot be experienced by anything else.

As I write this post, I am waiting for the flow of words to end but it’s endless, burdensome and addictive. I write because words are always penning themselves to me like a tattoo.

So I must stop because my limited capacity is full and my inspiration is causing me to sweat with each word I write. So in this space I sit with words and allow them the freedom to pen themselves to me unapologetically! I know when I recharge and pick up the pen words will fill me up and I will write!