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July 24, 2016 CENTERING IN POTTERY POETRY AND THE PERSON

July 24, 2016 CENTERING IN POTTERY POETRY AND THE PERSON

There is something I wanna share that goes along with the I AM THE CLAY theme that's been playing in my life center stage recently. I can't think of clay without thinking of M. C. Richards who wrote  
CENTERING: IN POTTERY POETRY AND THE PERSON.
I have a really old version of this book.
Please take a few minutes to spend time with this wondrous lady:
You can read about her life @
I also have the movie about her THE FIRE WITHIN
Here are a few of my favorite quotes:

~ To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
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~ We have to believe that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will not give us peace until we do.
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~ All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
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 ~ For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.
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~ Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.
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~Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
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~Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas of myself, of man be changed? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? To empty myself even of my concept of emptiness?
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~There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.
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~People don't want to feel stuck, they want to be able to change.
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~In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.
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~Bear ye one another's burdens, the Lord said, and he was talking law.
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~Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.
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~Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.
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~It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
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~The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst. Secrets are impossible. He identifies with his surroundings and they live within him unconsciously; it is perhaps for this reason that the small child has been characterized as naturally religious.
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~We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration . . .
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~And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act of inner receptivity. It is the total person who hears. Sometimes the skin seems to be the best listener, as it prickles and thrills, say to a sound or a silence; or the fantasy, the imagination: how it bursts into inner pictures as it listens and then responds by pressing its language, its forms, into the listening clay. To be open to what we hear, to be open in what we say.
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~Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
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