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What shakes the eye, but the invisible?
- Theodore Roethke
In this final chapter of The Artist’s Way, as her bon voyage gift to us, Julia offers a bouquet of ideas. When we begin to understand our creativity in terms of it being a sacred conversation between our Divinity and our human selves, she emphasizes the need [...]
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Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
- Erich Fromm
First, thanks for your patience while I took a much-needed break over the Imbolc period. I know that I was, in some ways, not as available to you as usual, which may have been a bit disappointing [...]
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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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Joy to the world
The Light is born
Peace on Earth,
Good will to all.
Goddess rest, ye merry Gentlefolk.
May our hearts be merry and bright.
Blessings of the Season,
Love all ways,
— Beth
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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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We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
– Paulo Coelho
As we explore the deeply rooted habits of blocking our inner artist, it might help to know that many times, these temptations show up disguised as coincidence.
I see this all the time in my Tarot practice. The [...]
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Annie: I’ve heard you help people with horse problems.
Tom Booker: Truth is, I help horses with people problems.
From The Horse Whisperer
Today we begin to find useful ways to deal with our creative U-turns, how to even turn them into the great opportunities in disguise they might be.
The first step of course, is to acknowledge them. [...]
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Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. — Claude Bernard
We have [...]
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© Osho Zen TarotCreativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.– Erich Fromm
The second day of each month in the Hellenic calendar is sacred to the agathos daimon, our benevolent personal guardian and companion spirit, similar to the Roman genius, ensuring good luck, health and wisdom. It is customary to pour a few drops [...]
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The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. — Abraham Lincoln
Until not too long [...]
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