Practical Wisdom for Extraordinary Living
From the monthly archives:
Throughout my whole life, during every moment I have lived, the world has gradually been taking on light and fire for me, until it has come to envelop me in one mass of luminosity, glowing from within… The purple flush of matter fading imperceptibly into the gold of spirit, to be lost finally in the [...]
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To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. — Theophile Gautier Today we finish our exercises for the third stage of The Artist’s Way. Then, for the next few days, we will pause to observe the great Sabbat of Beltane, one of the two most magical times [...]
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It is never too late to have a happy childhood.– Attributed to Tom Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Berke Breathed and probably more As we wind down the third step of our journey of artistic recovery, the emphasis is on being especially kind to ourselves while we continue to gently uncover our past memories. One of the [...]
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The Ten of Pentacles And the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.– T. S. Eliot This week, we receive a card not seen since late 2007, a time when many of us were feeling much more financially stable. The Tens are the culmination [...]
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To celebrate the conclusion of our celebration of National Poetry Month every weekend, I offer one woman’s glorious response to a huge blogging meme of poetry. Please click on the link near the bottom, to find many of the other poems that have been written. Many thanks to my friend Bonnie Cehovet for directing me [...]
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More homework for this weekend as we approach the end of the third step on our road to recovering our Inner Artist self. Yesterday, we worked through the first ten. Today, spend some time completing, in whatever way you wish, the following: 11. I am afraid that if I start dreaming …12. I secretly enjoy [...]
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As once the winged energy of delight == Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926) As once the winged energy of delightcarried you over childhood’s dark abysses,now beyond your own life build the greatarch of unimagined bridges. Wonders happen if we can succeedin passing through the harshest danger;but only in a bright and purely grantedachievement can [...]
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Dark of the MoonNew beginningsDark of the MoonPlant a seed tonightDark of the MoonWhat we envisionWill come to be by the Full Moon’s light. How divine! Now, with the New Moon in Taurus, we can connect to a powerful upsurge of magic. Astrologer Lynn Hayes writes of this Moon, “We are flooded with new ideas [...]
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Receptivity © Daniel Mirante Don’t mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified, it is not criticism, learn from it. — Anonymous As we develop our inner artist, regaining a sense of our power, it is important to understand the long-term [...]
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.– Robert Louis Stevenson As we are discovering, many of us carry hidden grief, where our fragile young creative self was shamed and wounded. When this happens enough, we [...]
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