The Artist's Way

pen your closet. Throw out—or hand on, or donate —one low-self-worth outfit. (You know the outfit.) Make ...

WEEK 5 Recovering a Sense of Possibility This week you are being asked to examine your payoffs ...

take ourselves—or God—seriously enough and so we define as grandiose many schemes that, with God’s ...

the bus, then run as fast as you can. For this to happen, first of all, we must believe that we are ...

in an abusive agent relationship because she thought it would be creative suicide to sever that ...

“Mmm.” It is as though we want to believe God can create the subatomic structure but is clueless when faced ...

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve him. Serving him, I add to my own good and theg ...

FINDING THE RIVER For four weeks now, we have been excavating our consciousness. We have seen how oft ...

more spontaneity. Freed from our constant demands for more and more reassurance, our fellows are ...

way!” with “Maybe,” we open the door to mystery and to magic. This newly positive attitude is the be ...

source meets our needs through people, places, and things. This concept is a very hard one for most of us ...

family and friends to leave us alone and stop making unreasonable demands. We are the ones ma ...

creatives, the belief that they must be nice and worry about what will happen with their friends, ...

yearns for a place in the home to pursue his interest. The installation of a modest family darkroom wou ...

earns its applause. But all of the hoopla falls on deaf ears. We are dead to it. Our artist is not merely ou ...

The true self is a disturbing character, healthy and occasionally anarchistic, who knows how to play, ...

sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good-looking, ...

are on the right track. These crazy notions are actually voices from our true self. What would ...

I worry that . If my dreams come true, my family will I sabotage myself so people will If I let ...

this to my students, they often protest that this is not true— that they are very good to themse ...