Tweet “If we take up the ideal of being servants of the world, rather than creators, we may find a path toward self-knowledge and a middle way that serves all of humanity and the earth’s inhabitants We may not be ‘great’ in the sense of superiority to others but rather in the humble greatness of…
Category Archives: Writing
I am the Wind
Tweet I am the wind that moves my pen across the page I am the wind that blows letters into words I am the wind that falls like a waterfall off my mountain mind Bringing the scent of lilacs to the valley below –Terry Chitwood A Living Connection This poem is an expression of Celtic…
Stories Save Us
Tweet “In the words of novelist James Carroll, ‘We tell stories because we can’t help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence that death imposes. We tell stories because they save us’” (Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life by…
Writing through Time
Tweet “Creativity is not a talent for the few, but a central trait of everyone. Deep down, our self is alive and craving to express itself, to improvise, and to play like a child. . . . It is worth remembering that the creative impulse taps a deep source. When we express ourselves in an…
Psyche as Poet
Tweet Speaking about the poetic psyche, Slattery writes, “The images are mindful ways of gathering an emotion into a bundle and then allowing the emotion to inform the image, even be the image.” Later he states, I learned that poetry can provoke poetic responses [from the psyche]” (“The Soul’s Claim: Choose it or Lose It”…
How To Defend Yourself Without Even Trying
Tweet How To Defend Yourself Without Even Trying was first published in softcover in 1981. It went through three printings and became a small-press bestseller. Buyers reported that the book appeared to jump off the bookshelves, grabbing their soul’s attention. I had numerous telephone calls and letters from readers whose lives were positively changed by…
Top 12 Posts from 2012 on Spring Snow Publications
Tweet Terry writes most of the posts on Spring Snow Publications, but I enjoy putting together an overview of the most popular posts from the previous year. (You’ll find all of Terry’s posts here, and all of my posts here.) It’s always fascinating to see what topics our readers enjoy most. While many of our…
Something Ancient, Something New
Tweet “After the illness a fruitful period of work began for me. A good many of my principal works were written only then. . . . I no longer attempted to put across my own opinion, but surrendered myself to the current of my thoughts” (Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung, p.297). Jung needed to…
Grow Your Story
Tweet “. . . [Jung’s] work as a healer did not take wing . . . until he realized that the key to the human personality was its story. Every human being at core, he held, had a unique story and no man could discover his greatest meaning unless he lived and, as it were,…
The Stony Path
Tweet Your difficulties are not obstacles on the path, they are the path. –Ezra Bayda In addition to quoting Bayda, Dinty Moore states, “With that logic, even the bad days are useful, even the obstacles are part of the path. Maybe I’m not writing anything worthy of preservation today, but if I’m at my desk,…
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