Practical Wisdom for Extraordinary Living
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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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The Children of Nut – Part Two
© Dan Furst
From the Universal Festival Calendar for January, 2010.
As so often happens in the world’s history and myths, the trickster who knows how to make the game playful can accomplish results that elude the mightiest warriors and the most patient negotiators.
– Dan Furst
We’re clearly playing a similar [...]
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The Children of Nut – Part One
© Dan Furst
From the Universal Festival Calendar for January, 2010.
It’s Jump Time, as Jean Houston entitled her new book on Shaping Your Future in a World of Radical Change. As you know if you’re a regular reader of the UFC [And I urge you to become one! - B.], [...]
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Envy shoots at others and wounds itself.
English Proverb
The last hazard of the road that Julia warns of in Chapter Eight is the danger of competition. What we consider a friendly rivalry can all too easily morph into a poisonous compare-and-contrast.
Like the longing for fame or recognition, gauging our work against the success of others [...]
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There is more to life than to increase its speed.
– Mahatma Gandhi
So now, gentle readers, we are going to zero in on one of our most pervasive, insidious blocks. Julia gives it a full four pages or so. Deep breath.
We’re going to take a closer look at workaholism and our addiction to busy-ness. [...]
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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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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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The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we’re afraid.
– Richard Bach
We’ve been examining how we block our creativity by using deeply rooted behaviors of self-sabotage and distraction. As soon as our artistic process starts to hum, [...]
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Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
– Marianne Williamson
The Moon reached Her fullness this morning at 2:30 am, Dec. 2nd, Eastern time (or 7:30 am UTC; or 11:30 pm last night, December 1st, if you’re in [...]
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