Practical Wisdom for Extraordinary Living
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. — Belva Davis My big, huge thanks to everyone who is checking in. Thanks especially for your courage to post some of your darker feelings. I am so grateful and honored that you can [...]
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Self-creation is an art of fire.– M. C. Richards How are you doing at this point? I would love to know how you are feeling about the pace of this work. Too fast? Too slow? We are about to cross into the half-way point, and I am wondering if you’re still with me. Is this [...]
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I want to sing like birds singNot worrying who hears orWhat they think.– Rumi I really love how many of you decided to color outside the lines on our last exercise, and add an eleventh question, so that it would not end by focusing on what makes us sad! Well done! As we wind down [...]
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St. Francis – Frederick Franck These drawings were done for one reason only: to see before I die. — Frederick Franck The bottom line of discovering and recovering our sense to what is possible is to examine why we feel like we have to edit or defer who we are, in order to seem “good” [...]
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Leap of Faith © C.J. BradfordThere is the risk you cannot afford to take, [and] there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. — Peter Drucker As I mentioned yesterday, Julia poses some tough questions about our self-destructive shadow side, which we may find smack in our way at this point. She explains, [...]
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The MagicianImagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.– George Bernard Shaw A powerful message appears for us this week, and one I think will especially resonate for those of us who are working with The Artist’s Way. The [...]
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The MagicianWhat really interests me is whether Godhad any choice in the creation of the world. — Albert Einstein Only once before in my Card of the Week has the Magician come calling, and now, what impeccable timing he has! For this week, with the Vernal Equinox, the new astrological year begins. In the Northern [...]
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