Reading Archive (Creativity)
What to Remember When Waking
In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly...
I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
I will not die an unlived life I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living...
Pablo Neruda's Greatest Lesson from Childhood
Playing in the lot behind the house one day when he was still a little boy, Neruda discovered a hole in a fence board. "I looked...
Vulnerability is the Path
Vulnerability isn't good or bad: it's not what we call a dark emotion, nor is it always a light, positive experience....
10 Principles of The Artist's Way
It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to...
An Ego Strategy to Avoid Surrender
What is conventionally called “love” is an ego strategy to avoid surrender. You are looking to someone to give you that which...
The Order on the Other Side of Chaos
I use the word "chaos" to describe those times in an organization when people are confused, don't know what to do, and feel...
Blessed Unrest
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all...
Unlocking a New Sphere of Reality
Being attentive unlocks a sphere of reality that no one suspects. If, for instance, I walked along a path without being attentive,...
Why I Make Movies
All movies are an illusion. We think we are seeing motion but in fact we are seeing twenty-four still pictures every second. Half the...
Art is a Life Raft
Art is a life raft. Many who become artists did so because they found refuge in art from some traumatic aspect of their early lives. I...
Conscious Simplicity
Here are three major ways that I see the idea of simplicity presented in today’s popular media: 1) Crude or Regressive...
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
I am the youngest of eight siblings. Five of us have died. I share losses, health concerns, and other challenges common to the human...
I Am Nothing
What will you do if you're too tough to be a good woman, too sensitive to be a good man, too selfish to be a good husband, too lazy to be...
The Challenge of Gift-Giving
I am afflicted with a trait which I suppose is common, yet I feel peculiar. Even though I like receiving gifts, I find myself feeling...
One Has No Self To Love
Love that expresses itself in creative action is something much more than an emotion. It is not something which you can...
Why Can't We Tolerate Emptiness?
Why is it so hard for us to tolerate emptiness in our minds? The prevalent belief that action always equals progress may be a...
Learning How To Think
Let’s start with how you don’t learn to think. A study by a team of researchers at Stanford came out a couple of months ago....
I Create My Day
"I wake up in the morning and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen. Now sometimes, because my mind is examining all...
Beauty Harmonizes Law and Liberty
A great poem, when analyzed, is a set of detached sounds. The reader who finds out the meaning, which is the inner medium that connects...