The Artist's Way

What was it? Were there any other issues this week that you consider significant for your recovery? ...

WEEK 12 Recovering a Sense of Faith In this final week, we acknowledge the inherently mysterious sp ...

resistance to our creativity is a form of self-destruction. We throw up roadblocks on our own path. Why do w ...

always God’s will for us. Mickey Hart’s hero and mentor, the late, great mythologist Joseph Campbell, ...

It is true that insights may come to us as flashes. It is true that some of these flashes may be ...

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. All too often, when we say we want to be creative ...

When we think about creativity, it is all too easy to think art with a capital A. For our purposes, capi ...

merging with a greater source. This conscious contact frequently affords us the perspectives ne ...

lives, showing in bright flashes, like a penny, in our stream of thought—like new grass under snow. For me ...

We are what’s important, and the something that we do can be something festive but small: dead plants ...

My friend Michele has a theory, a theory born of long and entangled romantic experience. In a nutshell, ...

the answer was yes. One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very ...

let them be that way. How? Zip the lip. Button up. Keep a lid on it. Don’t give away the gold. ...

Write down any resistance, angers, and fears you have about going on from here. We all have them. Take ...

that the miracle is one artist sharing with another. Trust God. Trust yourself Good luck and God bless yo ...

My name is ___. I am a recovering creative person. To further my growth and my joy, I now commit mysel ...

I have chosen ____ as my creative colleague and ____ as my creative back- up. I am committed to a ...

EPILOGUE THE ARTIST’S WAY IN ENDING THIS BOOK, I yearned for a final flourish, some last fillip ...

is often dogged by rough terrain or storms. A fog may obscure the distance we have covered or the ...

PAUL GARDNER When Mark Bryan began cornering me into writing this book, he had just seen a Chinese fi ...