Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort & Joy

Be patient: a magnum opus can take a lifetime to create.

Magic flows through us, mystery infuses every encounter of every day.

We may think we’re protecting ourselves by ignoring or denying our creative impulses, but really all we’re doing is burying our authentic selves alive.

Cultivate the habit of giving at least one compliment a day to another human being, as well as to yourself.

Today, as you walk through your own home, think about ways that you can start to mother yourself—every

“Answered prayers are scary,” Julia Cameron admits in The Artist’s Way. “They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you’ve got it, what are you going to do?

Today’s gourmet gardens are cooks’ gardens. That’s because gardening and cooking are complementary creative pastimes.

“Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually,” Eileen Caddy tells me as I turn over the earth, sow, weed, water, and wait. These are the lessons she learned in her garden. Lessons I long to learn.

“You don’t do anything,” she told me. Zilch. Nada. Zip. Wait it out. Accept the fallow period as graciously as you can, and get ready for a quantum leap in creativity or consciousness.