Spontaneity


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An insight is not completely inevitable, but we would say that it is probable.  An inner tension, made up of pooling energy and past frustration, has formed within, overnight, and as one enters the various contexts of the day something animal in one is alert and hunting, involuntarily, for opportunities to snag oneself on a jagged edge, pull, and snap the tension. If one is too busy, it does not happen.  It will wait in line behind a host of other postponed releases. One has been sick, or busy, and then finally there is room enough for calm, into which one litters countless splinters as if they were so many accidents ... a feeling of spontaneity, as past the jagged edges are no longer present.

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