Stillness In Prayer © Lucia HartiniGrace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It’s the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges us to change and grow, and then gives us the power to pull it off.— Tim Hansel One of the hardest things we may experience along The Artist’s … Read more
Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. — Belva Davis My big, huge thanks to everyone who is checking in. Thanks especially for your courage to post some of your darker feelings. I am so grateful and honored that you can … Read more
I want to sing like birds singNot worrying who hears orWhat they think.— Rumi I really love how many of you decided to color outside the lines on our last exercise, and add an eleventh question, so that it would not end by focusing on what makes us sad! Well done! As we wind down … Read more
St. Francis – Frederick Franck These drawings were done for one reason only: to see before I die. — Frederick Franck The bottom line of discovering and recovering our sense to what is possible is to examine why we feel like we have to edit or defer who we are, in order to seem “good” … Read more
Leap of Faith © C.J. BradfordThere is the risk you cannot afford to take, [and] there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. — Peter Drucker As I mentioned yesterday, Julia poses some tough questions about our self-destructive shadow side, which we may find smack in our way at this point. She explains, … Read more
The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you. – Hugh MacLeod, from Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity What do we do when the pottery class we want to take is at the exact same time as the Little League practice we’re expected … Read more
Remembering the Flight © Mihai CristeThe optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.— William Arthur Ward We continue this week recovering our sense of what is possible. We cannot have gotten to any real sense of this without having done the challenging prior steps … Read more
© Osho Zen TarotI am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path. — His Holiness, the Dalai Lama Since February, we have been excavating our consciousness, discovering the lost temples of our most holy places, and restoring the sacred meeting grounds between our incarnate lives and the Divine … Read more
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The point of my tangent about the economic paradigm yesterday was to help us understand why “scarcity thinking” is so normal for us. We can try to get past it, but we need to recognize that our whole … Read more