I don’t know how related this is to\u00c2\u00a0TSK insights\u00c2\u00a0about stories and self, but the recent material reminds me of my personal past.\u00c2\u00a0 I had an addiction to day dreaming which threatened my actual life.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00c2\u00a0gave up writing fiction for twenty years, out of a sense that I couldn’t afford to spend so much of my life energy creating\u00c2\u00a0fictional homes for my mind, when my lived life needed\u00c2\u00a0attention.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00c2\u00a0tried to abstain from idle day-dreaming, with\u00c2\u00a0the sense of urgency that I imagine people in AA\u00c2\u00a0bring to their addiction.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Years later, when I encountered the Noble Eightfold Path, I recognized a wonderful\u00c2\u00a0vehicle for this earlier incipient insight: Vision dies on the vine, unless it finds a home in Intention; and both go nowhere, unless we find a way to bring intention into the life we are leading.\u00c2\u00a0 One way of putting this insight could be: “There are worse fates than living out our stories; we can get stuck in our stories like a hungry ghost who can’t find the door out into the sunlight.” –Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I don’t know how related this is to\u00c2\u00a0TSK insights\u00c2\u00a0about stories and self, but the recent material reminds me of my personal past.\u00c2\u00a0 I had an addiction to day dreaming which threatened my actual life.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00c2\u00a0gave up writing fiction for twenty … Continue reading