Practical Wisdom for Extraordinary Living
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Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.
– Marsha Norman (American playwright)
While it is true that the real artist’s adventure begins with our being able to admit to our inner dream, it is also true that we can almost instantly react with resistance to it.
Julia writes, “This resistance is really very [...]
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Elegiac Verse
As we emerge from the quiet days of Imbolc, we are being awakened by the Eight of Wands. The eights of the Tarot are about abilities, self-directed action, and [...]
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Nine of Cups
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846–1916)
What an profound card for this week of Yuletide! I just couldn’t help but tinker a little bit with it. If you must see what the real Rider-Waite-Smith card looks like, you can go here.
Around the [...]
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Will We Open the Heavens
By Robin Williamson
Let me be where love is born
to sail upon a scallop shell
the way no hair of a thought is disturbed
and the sight is still
as moonlight clasps each leaf
of a tree of dust
until it knows it is alive
and lives to be green
tell me will we open the heavens
and disperse ourselves [...]
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The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
– Elie Wiesel
Are you having any trouble relating to our discussion about enthusiasm and lavishing love on our inner artist? If so, [...]
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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 rhyme [...]
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Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.– Seth Godin
We continue with the exercises that will finalize our journey through Chapter Eight. First, Julia warns us that this task may be difficult, but we should do it anyway. I did not find it difficult, personally. I found it fun [...]
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Grandmother Frier © Carol GerbingI cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.– M.F.K. Fisher
Concluding our ruminations today on how we use our age and other methods to stay blocked, it is time to reconsider some [...]
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What we really want to do is what we’re meant to do.– Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
Beginning to cooperate with the abundance that surrounds you and wants to guide you is a critical step towards being in the creative flow. It is also one of the most toxic, fear-distorted areas in our culture, and where, [...]
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Stillness In Prayer © Lucia HartiniGrace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It’s the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges us to change and grow, and then gives us the power to pull it off.– Tim Hansel
One of the hardest things we may experience along The Artist’s Way [...]
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