Sunday, August 23, 2009

10 STUPID THINGS ARTISTS DO TO MESS UP THEIR LIVES

Carla De Santis Article
You go forth from time to time, place to place, open & eager for all you can feast upon, dancing with words to have the resources to peal through for things to sing, songs to write, thoughts to share.

It's always a surprise & delight to see what happens, how it happens, what gets chosen, what gets said & then what it all means; and they mean more & more as the years go by, speaking in code to my warm gentle self. Feeding me at every age on every page with every bit of light & hope & reassurance to lead me forward to enjoy more & more. Explore. Drink in, listen hard, feel well, ease stress. Complain less.

It is mighty to have a life, be in these bodies. A blessing to be alive, a miracle to be breathing & writing & playing all that I do.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Changing Your Perspective

We're asking you to trust in the Well-being. In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing. In positive expectation there is thrill and success. In pessimism or awareness of what is not wanted, there is nothing. What you're wanting to do is redefine your relationship with the Stream. We do not ask you to look at something that is black and call it white. We do not ask you to see something that is not as you want it to be and pretend that it is. What we ask you to do is practice moving your gaze. Practice changing your perspective. Practice talking to different people. Practice going to new places. Practice sifting through the data for the things that feel like you want to feel and using those things to cause you to feel a familiar place. In other words, we want you to feel familiar in your joy. Familiar in your positive expectation, familiar in your knowing that all is well, because this Universe will knock itself out giving you evidence of that Well-being once you find that place.

--- Abraham-Hicks