“Being A Clear Channel For The Muse” by SĂlvia Bastos
oh Muse, Mother, Source
i offer myself to you
let me be a clear channel
for your message to pass throughbless me with your light
i’m listening for your call
show me the shape of your insight
for the benefit of all
(a poem prayer by SĂlvia, for creativity)
Tweets
i cannot overstate how extremely important it is to trust your weird, out-of-left-field, never-been-tried-before ideas and intuitions, to be loyal to them, to act on them without hemming or hawing—to find the courage to go on the quest, to love the hero you watch yourself become
eros is the muse, she is fickle, that is her very nature
i would recommend devotion to eros, as you would to a husband or wife, in all her majesty and glory and tempestuous volatility
she must be obeyed whenever she calls, surrendered to whenever she comes, worshipped with adoration and love and respect
if you put her first above all else she will trust you, love you, be faithful to you also and show up often, more and more, be increasingly a source of constant inspiration and direction
being connected to those around you, your friends and the world at large will help you to feel her pull, to hear her call, to trust her draw
she may make demands on you you don’t understand, can’t yet make sense of, even have objections to
those are the requests, the inspirations that will bring you the most growth and discovery, joy and benefit, if only in time, by the end
if you surrender a need for control and understanding, she will shower you with inspiration, joy, and fulfillment, and also success, success you couldn’t have planned on or steered towards with logic or reasoning
u don’t know in advance what will resonate for people, what will touch their hearts and benefit their lives
sharing something, hitting publish, making it available to others is a kind of alchemy where the gold in ur heart becomes a gift to the world, and the world gives u the feedback u need to carry onwards, the seeds of the next stages of ur own journey
this is an exchange, where in giving, u also receive. what u already have becomes the path to what u don’t yet know, what u have not yet seen
it’s so easy to get stuck if u don’t share what u make with the world, if u don’t receive the information it has about what is resonant and beneficial and alive about ur gifts and strengths
i imagine it must be possible to create in a vacuum, to follow one’s heart and the dictates of the muses without interacting with the world—outsider art—but i do not know this path, i have never walked it, for it seems a hard and lonely road, at least to my eyes and sou
when we open our hearts to the muses, to create the art they demand of us, when we obey in a timely fashion and share it as soon as we are able, then it hits the hearts of others who are resonating on a similar frequency
i do what the muses tell me, simple as
u can’t tell the muse to only come at this hour and not that hour, to walk in this way not in that way
the only spell you need to cast to summon the muses and their creativity is to live your life fully
it turns out that if U do literally everything the muses ask of U, U will live a blessed life that is overflowing with joy and miracles
when the muses come, the move is to obey, to act on inspiration as it arrives
across time, the move is to trust the process, to know that creativity comes and goes, to believe that the ebb and flow will carry U towards an already-finished-in-the-future creation
the muses call and i obey
i wouldn’t dare to quibble with the muse
one of those nights where i must obey the muse
this is why we obey the muses
bro you can’t dictate what the muse asks of you
who up trustin’ the muse
if the muses say jump, i jump
you must obey the muse when she comes (and ideally she comes too)
