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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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I am pausing before taking on a new topic here. In part, this is because I am waiting to see what stories and pathways wish to manifest here, now that our other journey is completed. But also, there are some major shifts happening in my work and practice, which I am sure will be reflected [...]
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Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.
– Italo Calvino (Journalist and writer, 1923-1985)
The ego trip of pursuing ART, with a capital A is just another trap which is bound, sooner [...]
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It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair’s breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance…. To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired. – Thoreau
(My thanks today to Waverly FitzGerald for this quote, [...]
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Today, while I remain on my Hermit journey, I urge you to get to know the glorious artwork and blog of Lauren Raine. Get hooked with this most recent post. Then revel, be inspired, drink deep and lose yourself in all of her luscious art.
Blessings to all.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
In considering the perils of success, Julia reminds us that creativity is not a business. It certainly has business closely tied to it, as it can generate income and [...]
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No one man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
As we continue the final stages of The Artist’s Journey, we encounter a challenge we’ve maybe never considered. This challenge that will come, sooner [...]
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To accept the responsibility of being a child of God is to accept the best that life has to offer you.
— Stella Terrill Mann
More directly from Julia today.
“There is a connection,” she writes, “between self-nurturing and self-respect. If I allow myself to be bullied and cowed by other peoples’ urges for me to [...]
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Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself.
Stop looking in the other way of looking.
- Rumi
You may begin to notice that I am directly quoting Julia more and more. Frankly, the previous several chapters have felt slow and heavy at times. But clearly, she was patiently laying the groundwork for this. Now, in Chapter [...]
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Nobody knows where you are
How near or how far
Shine on you crazy diamond.
– David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Rick Wright (Pink Floyd)
As we recover what Julia calls “A Sense of Autonomy,” we step it up, and embrace our very own, unique, quirky take on what Artist means. This is deeply individual, like a fingerprint of [...]
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