Notes on a Contemplative Life

Notes on a Contemplative Life

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Notes on a Contemplative Life
A Thousand Moments Later
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A Thousand Moments Later

Love is a choice. A choice to connect with something deep inside yourself.

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Clarke Scott
Jan 21, 2024
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In 2015 I started work on a film project.

The project was a feature film called, A Thousand Moments Later.

The central theme of the film was love. But love to me is not something we find, or that magically appears when two perfectly matched souls meet.

Rather, love is a choice. A choice to connect with something deep inside yourself. Only through this connection, can we truly love another.

I wrote and directed this film but it never found a distributor and was never released. So I moved on to other things.

But my interest in things that move us to connect with this deeper thing has never diminished.

Welcome to this week's edition of the Contemplative Life Project.

What I've been thinking

Looking back at this film project I can see how it is a seed for the things I am doing now. Both are an exploration of connecting with this deeper thing. This impulse to create in this way is possibly the one thread running through all my work—written, and visual. But only this project, it seems, allows me to share this with you in real-time, and in doing so we are connecting, at a deeper level.

In Japanese, there is a word for this. They call this, Ikigai. Ikigai is a vocation that gives you a sense of purpose and satisfaction in which others can participate—this is how I like to think about it, at least.

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