New Year. – A blessing for the Artist at the beginning of a new day.

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May this be a morning of innocent beginning, 
When the gift within you slips clear 
Of the sticky web of the personal 
With its hurt and hauntings, 
And fixed fortress corners, 
A morning when you become a pure vessel 
For what wants to ascend from silence, 

​May your imagination know  
The grace of perfect danger, 
And the wheel of repetition, 
To reach beyond imitation, 
Deep into the call of all 
The unfinished and unsolved 
Until the veil of the unknown yields 
And something original begins 
To stir toward your senses 
And grow stronger in your heart... 

JOHN O'DONOHUE   
Excerpt from the blessing, 'For the Artist at the Start of Day' in the books, Benedictus (Europe)