Practical Wisdom for Extraordinary Living
Hope is like a road in the country; there never was a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. – Lin Yutang We have been talking about how our need for greatness can overwhelm us, causing us to procrastinate, delay, and then beat ourselves up for our inability to [...]
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As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. – Marianne Williamson In the post from Zen Habits I mentioned yesterday, author Leo Babauta tells us that patience and perseverance are essential. He tells [...]
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. – Ralph Waldo Emerson We are beginning Chapter Nine, Recovering a Sense of Compassion, by examining the power of words. As you know, words have enormous power, from spells to curses, from treaties to laws. The old childhood [...]
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The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath Welcome back! I’m so glad you have found your way here to my new digs and that you are still with us on this journey of The Artist’s Way begun at Imbolc (Feb.) this year. I hope you haven’t abandoned ship (which you will see [...]
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. – Agnes de Mille We’ve been working with the idea that instead of the ultimately self-defeating practice of being paralyzed by the prospects of where our creative path may take us, it is extremely important at this stage [...]
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Evergreen Surrealist Pearl FryarI walk slowly, but I never walk backward. — Abraham Lincoln I left you with a real cliff-hanger yesterday! Rather than moving gently ahead one step at a time in our artistic recovery, we have a tendency to be addicted to Big Drama, so we rush madly to the precipice of complete [...]
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Andy GoldsworthyThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time. — Leo TolstoyWhy is it so hard to take things in baby steps? Why are micromovements (which seem ridiculously obvious, once you think about them) such a revelation? I think that part of it comes from an unspoken expectation for humans to now move at [...]
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You can’t use up your creativity. The more you use, the more you have. — Maya AngelouAfter a lifetime of repressing and thwarting our creative urges, we may want to swing radically back in the other direction. So, we may suddenly find ourselves overwhelmed by the enormous changes we feel will be necessary, once we [...]
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© Artsy SFI love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams The idea of micromovements is so simple and obvious. We can see perfectly well that just giving five or ten minutes a day to our creative work will move us forward (and out of our perpetual [...]
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Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will–tomorrow! — Gloria Pitzer Today, we start the home stretch for this chapter of recovering our sense of strength. Having done a little more soul searching, it’s time to move forward. We begin what Julia [...]
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