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As long as I am offering some encore posts, here’s one that is more recent, from last year. But I think that, having concluded our Artist’s Way work, yet perhaps only just now really beginning our path as creators, this might bear repeating. Blessings! — Beth
The Celtic Spirit
Daily Meditations for the Turning Year
by Caitlin [...]
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Another encore post, this time, from one I wrote back in 2005.
Court the Wild: Find Your Secret Spot in Nature
Courting the wild–spending one to two hours each day in nature–is a suggestion from author Jim Merkel. In his book, Radical Simplicity (New Society Publishers ©2003) he offers this important recommendation for how to remain sane [...]
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The race isn’t over until you cross the finish line. You’ll be surprised at how much can change in the last twenty strides.
–Jackie Dugall (Women’s Cross Country champion and award-winning coach)
Just as our Tarot card of the week has predicted, we are leaving behind the tenderly placed heart lessons found in the chapters of this [...]
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This “guest post” is from one of my favorite bloggers, Leo Babauta, of Zen Habits. In his post today he recommends that folks new to his blog check out “The Beginners Guide to Zen Habits,” which is a compilation of some of most illuminating posts since he began, back in 2007.
This one seems particularly [...]
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For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.
- Dr. Judith M. Bardwick, author and psychological analyst for Fortune 500 corporations
Finding a firm line which we recognize is a boundary between enthusiastic work and unhealthy behavior can be very difficult for those of us with work addictions. To get some perspective, [...]
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Excerpted from an article by Skye Thomas, based on Butterfly, by Norie Huddle
After a caterpillar buries itself inside its cocoon, it waits to morph into a butterfly. The caterpillar does not simply shrink a bit and sprout wings. Instead, it sort of disintegrates into a puddle of ooze within the cocoon. If [...]
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Dark of the Moon
New beginnings
Dark of the Moon
Plant a seed tonight
Dark of the Moon
What we envision
Will come to be
By the Full Moon’s light.
There is really only one thing that I hope you will weave into your magic spells on this New Moon. Saving life as we know it on our Earth.
Period.
Now is the time. [...]
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
– Mark Twain
I love the insights some of you are sharing! What you are noticing, and what Julia promises for the rest of us, is that our blocking devices will begin [...]
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world.
– Ayn Rand
This week, we have the somewhat rare return of the Two of Swords. The [...]
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
– Erma Bombeck
Even as the end is almost in sight for our Artist’s Way journey, we arrive at some of the toughest final barriers to our recovery. [...]
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