The Artist's Way

uniqueness with sugar, alcohol, drugs, overwork, underplay,
bad relations, toxic sex, underexercise, over-TV, undersleep
—many and varied forms of junk food for the soul. The
pages help us to see these smears on our consciousness.
Is you look over the time you have been doing your
morning writing, you will see that many changes have
entered your life as a result of your willingness to clear
room in it for your creator’s action. You will have noticed
an increased, sometimes disconcerting, sense of personal
energy, some bursts of anger, some flash points of clarity.
People and objects may have taken on a different meaning
to you. There will be a sense of the flow of life—that you
are brought into new vistas as you surrender to moving with
the flow of God. This is clear already.
You may well be experiencing a sense of both bafflement
and faith. You are no longer stuck, but you cannot tell
where you are going. You may feel that this can’t keep up.
You may long for the time when there was no sense of
possibility, when you felt more victimized, when you didn’t
realize how many small things you could do to improve
your own life.
It is normal to yearn for some rest when you are moving
so rapidly. What you will learn to do is rest in motion, like
lying down in a boat. Your morning pages are your boat.
They will both lead you forward and give you a place to
recuperate from your forward motion.
It is difficult for us to realize that this process of going
inside and writing pages can open an inner door through