The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. C. G. JUNG

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. SUSAN JEFFERS

We meditate to discover our own identity, our right place in the scheme of the universe. Through meditation, we acquire and eventually acknowledge our connection to an inner power source that has the ability to transform our outer world. In other words, meditation gives us not only the light of insight but also the power for expansive change.

I learned to get out of the way and let that creative force work through me. I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb. It wasn’t so tricky, and it didn’t blow up on me anymore. I didn’t have to be in the mood. I didn’t have to take my emotional t

To effect a creative recovery, we must undergo a time of mourning. In dealing with the suicide of the “nice” self we have been making do with, we find a certain amount of grief to be essential. Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth. Without this creative moistening, we may remain barren. We must allow the bolt of pain to strike us. Rem

It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance.

The more we learn to operate in the world based on trust in our intuition, the stronger our channel will be and the more money we will haue.

THE VIRTUE-TRAP QUIZ The biggest lack in my life is ______________. The greatest joy in my life is ______________. My largest time commitment is ____________. As I play more, I work __________________. I feel guilty that I am ___________________. I worry that __________________________. If my dreams come true, my family will ________. I sabotage my

This week, please be sure to work with your affirmations of choice and your blurts at the end of each day’s morning pages. Convert all blurts into positive affirmations.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don’t. Morning pages will teach you that your mood doesn’t really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you’re doing is just plain junk.