What If You Worshipped the Idol, Power?

(Click these links to read about worshipping Money, Fame or Pleasure if you haven’t read them yet).

A long time ago, I took a class on how to deepen my intuition. It was taught by a woman who believed everyone had intuition, but most people didn’t use it.

Not sure I retained anything from the class except one thing—she told me my purpose in life was to “Express Authentic Insight.”

At the time I thought this was bogus, but looking back at everything I’ve written, that’s the thread that runs through all of it. I’ve spent my writing career figuring things out, then writing about what I discovered so people could get their creative work into the world with more ease.

What would have happened if my idol were Power? Then I’d have spent my creative effort expressing whatever would bring me power. The authentic and the insight would be out the window if they didn’t serve the idol.

What a depressing way to spend my creative life force. I can imagine abandoning writing altogether if I worshipped power over everything else and the writing didn’t deliver it to me.

And that’s the moral of the story.

Money, Power, Fame, and Pleasure are all false idols. Worshipping anything gets in the way of authentic creativity.

But abandoning the idols can be pretty scary. Then you’re channeling your creativity, expressing yourself for no other reason than what you are making wants to be made, now, by you.

The creative work itself is the purpose.

Your work matters.

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