The Artist's Way

that we examine them. More than anything else, creative recovery is an exercise in open-mindedness. A ...

letters from my grandmother. “The forsythia is starting and this morning I saw my first robin.... The ...

My grandmother lived with that man in tiled Spanish houses, in trailers, in a tiny cabin halfway ...

chrysanthemum, lighting it up like a spotlight, deep red petals and Chinese yellow center.... Seeing ...

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play ...

was in was always the only safe place for me. Each moment, taken alone, was always bearable. In the exact ...

cottonwoods in the wash below. “The ponies like them for their shade,” she said. “I like them ...

Remember that it is my job to do the work, not judge the work. Place this sign in my workplace: G ...

near where you write your morning pages. Use this map to support your autonomy. Add names to the inner and ...

the affirmations you made yourself from your blurts. Return to the list of imaginary lives from las ...

If your spiritual life is minimal, even a five-minute pit stop into a synagogue or cathedral can ...

pages? (We’re hoping seven, remember.) How was the experience for you? How did the morning pages work for you? De ...

WEEK 3 Recovering a Sense of Power This week may find you dealing with unaccustomed bursts of energy and ...

boundaries are. Anger shows us where we want to go. It lets us see where we’ve been and lets us kno ...

anger. Damn anger!! It tells us we can’t get away with our old life any longer. It tells us that old ...

• A woman admits to a buried dream of acting. At dinner the next night, she sits beside a ...

behalf. SHAKTI GAWAIN It’s my experience that we’re much more afraid that there might be a God th ...

that the sky’s the limit. Anyone honest will tell you that possibility is far more frighteni ...

is—the hand of God, or good, activated by our own hand when we act in behalf of our truest dreams ...

phenomenon that some of us prefer to ignore: the possibility of an intelligent and responsive universe, ...