THE ARTIST’S WAY: A SPIRITUAL PATH TO HIGHER CREATIVITY

"This book has been around for a long time, and I hope it sticks around forever. I'l guides the reader through a fascinating (and fun) twelve-week-long program of exercises and explorations that help loosen up one's artistic self. It takes you on a journey that will cost you nothing (aside from the gnidebook) and it brings much insight, gently helping you see what is holding you back, and showing you how to inove forward. Three times in the last decade I've connnitted lo doing The Artist's Way program, and each time I've learned something important and surprising about myself and my work. Just to show how influential it's been to me, the first time I did the program, I liad decided by the end of it that I wanted to: 1) travel to Italy and learn Italian, 2) go to an ashram in India, and 3) return to Indonesia to study with the oíd medicine man I'd once met there. We all know what that decition led to. . . . Without The Artist's Way , there would have been no eat, pray or loveö. -Elizabeth Gilbert " The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron is not exclusively about writing, it is about discovering and developing the artist within, whether a painter, poet, screenwriter, or musician, but it is a lot about writing. If you have always wanted to pursue a creative dream, have always wanted to play and create with words or paints, this book will gently get you started and help you learn all kinds of paying-attention techniques; and that, after all, is what being an artist is all about. It's about learning to pay attentionö. -Anne Lamott "This is a book that addresses a delicate and complex subject. For those who will use it, it is a valuable tool to get in touch with their own creativityö. -Martin Scorsese