people who nuture a sense of stability whilst not stifling our creativityKEY FACTOR THERE!!
Insanity is the sister of Creativity."You have brought me to a good place. I thank you with my favorite writers/poets.
Why thank you my love! And how interesting you should quote Anais Nin - I've been reading and sinking sublimely into Henry and June this last week. i'd only read Delta of Venus before, but this compilation of her diaries when she was having her affair with Henry Miller just swept me away.
I particularly kindled at her words regarding psychoanylsis and felt so grateful (and slightly peeved for being nothing new under the sun AGAIN) that someone over 60 years ago had the same reservations about the risk of over analysis, in a clinical capacity, to creativity.
"I find that I do not know what to believe, that I have not decided yet whether analysis simplifies and undramatizes our existence or whether it is the most subtle, the most insidious, the most magnificent way of making dramas more terrible, more maddening."
"As I fight off analysis, I betray exactly what he suspects: that I require extravagant, passionate demonstrations of love, not tenderness or protection."
"My mind is alert expecting him to say something dogmatic, formulistic. I want him to say it, because if he does, this will be another man I cannot lean on, and I will have to go on conquering myself alone."
"The scientific tampering with emotions...I feel it is a short-lived thing, something painfully squeezed out, a thin essence pressed out of herbs."
"Proust writes that happiness is something from which fever is absent."
And my own thoughts:
Temper the fever, rather than tamper with it. Partake of happiness, but also partake of misery, for one will taste sweeter for the other.