The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

Stripped to their essence, our multiple negative beliefs reveal a central negative belief: we must trade one good, beloved dream for another. In other words, if being an artist seems too good to be true to you, you will devise a price tag for it that strikes you as unpayable. Hence, you remain blocked.

In working with this book, remember that The Artist’s Way is a spiral path. You will circle through some of the issues over and over, each time at a different level. There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life.

The morning pages acquaint us with what we think and what we think we need. We identify problem areas and concerns. We complain, enumerate, identify, isolate, fret. This is step one, analogous to prayer. In the course of the release engendered by our artist date, step two, we begin to hear solutions. Perhaps equally important, we begin to fund the

Typically, the recovering shadow artist will use these early efforts to discourage continued exploration.

Then ask yourself if you can acquire the humility to start something despite your ego’s reservations.

is impossible to write morning pages for any extended period of time without coming into contact with an unexpected inner power.

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage. CLAUDE M. BRISTOL

QUESTION: Do you know how old I’ll be by the time I learn to play the piano? ANSWER: The same age you will be if you don’t. “I’m too old for that” ranks with “I don’t have money for it” as a Great Block Lie we use to prevent further exploration.