Get something that is near and dear to your heart: A teacup from your grandmother, a clay artpiece from your kid’s secong grade class, anything. Grasp it in your hands and sit in a quiet space in your home. Close your eyes and relax. Things will go through your mind, things not even related to what you are holding. Let all things pass through your consciousness. What you will be searching for are the stories that come in relation to that piece you are holding. The stories may not be necessarily true! It could be a story from a far off place.

The key is to write down what you saw when you are done (it only takes about 5-10 minutes, but if you can go longer… You want to remember those fantasies and then the magic begins. You start creating what’s in your heart, not someone else’s.

The Artist’s Way - Julia Cameron

The Artist’s Way Workbook - Julia Cameron

Walking in this World - Julia Cameron

Finding Water - Julia Cameron

“I think this is one of the great barriers in the creative life.  It’s so seductive to spend all of our time and energy developing potential; that is to say learning techniques, gathering equipment, putting our life and our creative life in order, cleaning up the darkroom…….but if we don’t actually make something – then all that time goes to naught.”

“Am I doing it because I need it – or am I doing it because I might someday need it in theory – but never in practice.  There is a bit of a hoarders mentality in this.”

What are you defending?

An illusory identity, an image in your mind, a fictitious entity.

By making this pattern conscious, by witnessing it, you dis-identify from it.

In the light of your conscious, the unconscious pattern will quickly dissolve.  This is the end of all arguments and power games which are so corrosive to relationships.  Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.  True power is within, and is available to you NOW.

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So anyone who is identified with their mind, and therefore disconnected from their true power their deeper self rooted in being will have fear as their constant companion.  The number of people who have gone beyond mind is as yet extremely small, so you can assume that virtually everyone you meet or know lives in a state of fear.  Only the intensity of it varies. It fluctuates between anxiety and dread at one end of the scale and a vague unease and distant sense of threat at the other.  Most people only become conscious of it when it takes on one of it’s more acute forms.  Another aspect of the emotional pain that is an intrinsic part of the egoic mind is a deep seeded sense of lack, or incompleteness – of not being whole.  In some people this is conscious, in others unconscious.  If it is conscious, it manifests as the unsettling and constant feeling of not being worthy or good enough.  …..often enter into a compulsive pursuit of ego gratification and things to identify with, in order to fill this hole they feel within.  And so they strive after possessions, money, success, power, recognition, or a special relationship.  Basically so they can feel better about themselves, feel more complete.  But even when they attain all these things, they find that the hole is still there.  That it is bottomless, then they are really in trouble – because they cannot elude themselves anymore……

The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle – Audio book version

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• Captured Moments: “The Captured Moments journal technique allows you to celebrate and savor, preserving in prose the glory and anguish, the serenity and sorrow, the pleasure and pain of your life” […]. A great candidate to be sent in a time capsule to the future.
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20 Fabulous Light Graffiti Artists & Photographers

Written by Urbanist on December 7th, 2008 – Topics: Geek Art, Graffiti, Guerilla Action,Subvertising, Urban Art, Urban Images

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• Vintage New York Look
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