Practical Wisdom for Extraordinary Living
From the monthly archives:
When God closes a door, She always opens a window, but sometimes it’s hell in the hallway.– AnonymousWe are considering the ways that setbacks and “failures” may be opportunities in disguise. To the artist, whose entire viewpoint is about finding creative, out-of-the-box pathways, you would think such detours would be second nature to us.But as [...]
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Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. — Claude Bernard We have been spending some time in this chapter going deeper into our dark memories of the losses that our artist self has endured. From our long ago baby steps that were shamed or thwarted, to more recent attempts [...]
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The Ten of Cups…Know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. — from the Charge of the Goddess, traditional by Doreen Valiente Bliss! Only a month after its last appearance, this [...]
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Yes, it’s viral, everybody‘s seen it, but here he is again (the original, uncut), because we just need to smile sometimes! From New Zealand, presenting the one and only Mr. Cory Elliot:
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On Thursday, Sept. 24, using tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets, riot police attacked University of Pittsburgh students on their own campus. Most of the students were just hanging out, not demonstrating. But so what if they were demonstrating, since it was a peaceful assembly? Who decides if we aren’t “allowed” to exercise our [...]
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Surround yourself with people who respect and wish you well. — Claudia Black To recover our inner artist, we must face the scars that block us. As if we are trees, we remember and grieve where the hopeful young sapling’s limbs of potential were damaged by the ice storms of criticism, broken by aloof (perhaps [...]
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Solitude, Outer Hebrides © Pamela BoneEmpty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty hearts can do that. — Norman Vincent Peale Can I confess something to you? I have to admit I am having a little difficulty psyching myself up to come here and write about this, this week. Like many of you are finding, [...]
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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa Welcome back, as we travel some of the darker pathways of Chapter Eight, Recovering a Sense of Strength. How have you been doing? Were you able to work with some of the challenges from last week, specifically any teachers or [...]
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Once more the liberal year laughs outO’er richer stores than gems or gold:Once more with harvest song and shoutIs nature’s boldest triumph told.– John Greenleaf WhittierToday is the Equinox, taken from the Latin for “equal night.” It is the Autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, and the Spring equinox below the equator. In both cases, [...]
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On this date, the Sun enters the sign of Libra, fittingly, the sign of the balanced scales. Like the scales, Libras prefer to be on an even keel. They easily tune in to how people relate to one another and partnerships of all sorts. For a Libra, everything is better when done together. Venus, planet [...]
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