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

The morning pages acquaint us with what we think and what we think we need. We identify problem areas and concerns. We complain, enumerate, identify, isolate, fret. This is step one, analogous to prayer. In the course of the release engendered by our artist date, step two, we begin to hear solutions. Perhaps equally important, we begin to fund the
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Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
the arts as hobbies, creative fluff around the edges of real life.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
If I were twenty and had money … List five adventures. Again, add images of these to your visual image file. 5. If I were sixty-five and had money … List five postponed pleasures. And again, collect these images. This is a very potent tool. I now live in a house that I imaged for ten years.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. We will continue to work this week with our ideas surrounding money. We will see how our ideas about money (“It’s hard to get. You have to work long hours fo
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Affirmations will help you allow yourself to do it. An affirmation is a positive statement of (positive) belief, and if we can become one-tenth as good at positive self-talk as we are at negative self-talk, we will notice an enormous change.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
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.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
New York Feminist Art Institute—which