When Something Begins to Clarify
There is a lot happening right now.
It is going deeper, and it is becoming clearer.
I wrote the sections for Lillbjörn’s Journey Toward Christmas. It is resting a little to the side for now, but it is there. I notice how important it has become for me to listen — to signals, to what my attention is drawn toward, and above all to what is being stirred within me.
Creating Without Performance
When I began working on the Christmas calendar book, it was as if something awakened. I wasn’t trying to perform, as I have done before. There was no project to get right, no goal to reach — only playfulness, something joyful and light. I could sit and laugh out loud by myself as I wrote.
Reaching the Bottom — Into Nothingness
Sometimes we need to go all the way down.
To the bottom.
To nothingness.
To a place where we no longer know how or why.
During this time, a friend sent me their new e‑book. Published and complete. I remember thinking, Maybe I should write a book too. But what would I write about?
What mattered most in the past few months was not something I had done — but something that had fallen away.
A Stillness That Lacks Nothing
Suddenly, everything I had set out to do collapsed. I completely let go. Again and again I was reminded to simply be still. I could sit for hours, gazing straight ahead, without a single thought. Completely empty.
And from that emptiness, the question did not arise: What should I do?
But rather: What wants to take form through me?
Not what I should invent — but what wants to come.
Becoming Nothing So That Something Can Be Born
In the biblical texts — for example in Jesus’ words about “becoming like a child, open and clear,” and in the mystical tradition of emptiness and surrender — as well as in modern spiritual and neuroscientific understanding, such as in the work of Joe Dispenza, this state is described as becoming nothing: no time, no form, no identity. It is only there that we can truly return home to what wants to take shape through us.
To enter silence.
Not as a state where something is missing,
but as a state where nothing needs to be added.
To simply be.
Without a thought.
Without direction.
Without lack.
Not feeling that “nothing is happening,”
but experiencing pure joy, appreciation, and fullness — right in the midst of nothingness.
And that is where things begin to move.
When Creation Is Free to Flow
Another book emerged. Both an e‑book and a paperback. Surprisingly fast. At the same time, I learned along the way. Because writing a book is not “just” writing a book. I can write — but every time I tried to create a system, a method, a framework, something within me protested.
Lillbjörn’s Christmas and this new book have demanded nothing from me. They have simply flowed. One afternoon, I even forgot to eat lunch. I was completely absorbed. The same thing happened when I painted in oil pastels — time disappeared.
This kind of creation does not come from the intellect.
It comes from listening.
Creation Beyond Ambition
And perhaps this is the most important insight right now:
It is not through passion that we are meant to create.
It is not through ambition.
It is through presence and deep listening.
When I stop trying to become someone, achieve something, or push something forward — and instead rest in what already is — life begins to move on its own.
This is creation beyond ambition.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍
Anders Stark
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