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 [...]
by Beth on January 17, 2010
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 [...]
by Beth on December 15, 2009
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
- Freya Stark, The Journey’s Echo
How did you do on the workaholism quiz from Friday? Frankly, I am busted on almost every question. Having done this work before, you would think I would have been much [...]
by Beth on November 25, 2009
I don’t want to come to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
– Diane Ackerman
We are coming to the end of Chapter Nine, which has been about Recovering a Sense of Compassion for our [...]
by Beth on November 9, 2009
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
This week, we welcome the powerful Major [...]
Walking Between The Worlds Painting in Gouache © MorgaineCreativity comes from awakening and directing men’s higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven.– I Ching
What wonderful, juicy discussions we are having! As creatives, as magical people, as awakeners and the awakening, we are all walking the edges. [...]
© Osho Zen Tarot
The significant problems we have in the world today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. — Albert Einstein
As we take the steps necessary to restore our sense of integrity, we are cultivating new ways to understand and identify our true creative self. This process [...]
by Beth on February 13, 2009
Writer’s Block © PenelopeCreativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. — Edwin Land, scientist and inventor of Polaroid film and the Land camera
Every day, we are witnessing more signs that our economy has gone haywire, and no one quite knows (much less agrees!) what to do about it. Some say that as we spend the [...]
by Beth on January 30, 2009
I searched for God and found only myself.I searched for myself and found only God. — Sufi proverb
I‘ve been ruminating about the ways we can discover what our spiritual commitments for Imbolc and the coming months of growing daylight might be. Many people do this through a process of simply thinking it over and [...]
by Beth on January 15, 2009
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.– Chinese proverb
When I was many years younger, I used to be hit hard by what later came to be known as SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder. As Autumn proceeded from its kaleidoscopic [...]