#michaelventura

[esowteric]

Keep It Going, and Pass it On

VENTURA: “[A]ll of this passing things on, in all its forms, may not cure the world now—curing the world now may not be a human possibility—but it keeps the great things alive. And we have to do this because, as Laing said, who are we to decide that it is hopeless? And I said to my son, if you wanted to volunteer for fascinating, dangerous, necessary work, this would be a great job to volunteer for—trying to be a wide-awake human during a Dark Age and keeping alive what you think is beautiful and important.”

~ James Hillman and Michael Ventura, We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World's Getting Worse.

[mttbll]

Rereading Michael Ventura's "The Talent of the Room" before teaching my first grad workshop of the semester tomorrow. I've always appreciated how clear he lays out the conditions of the writer here. What the work might win you, what it might cost. How whether you get everything or nothing the next book is begun under the exact same terms. #writing #michaelventura