This was sent to me by my friend, and reader of the blog, Grace Kane. It’s too wonderful not to share.
Show up. Shine. Let it go.
by Danielle LaPorte (White Hot Truth)
Expectation liberation is the new black. Style up.
A PRAYER FOR RECOVERING EXPECTATION ADDICTS
Lord, Shiva, Yaweh, Saraswati, [insert your own deities here] pimp my shizzle and deliver me to where it’s best.
Yess’m, Jesus, life, cosmic intelligence, Milky Way Magi, take the wheel.
I know you’ve got my back. I know that you know how intensely my heart burns, how sweet is the honey at the center of my center, how much I am capable of. And God knows (that’d be you) how game I am to collaborate with you to make good stuff happen.
I accept my calling: to show up and shine. Unfurled and honest. Determined to be only that which I am.
I’m here to give…my all.
I trust that pure intention counts for plentiful support.
I trust we’ll get where I’m going, together — once I learn to be where I am.
I’ll go make my art now.
I have faith that you’ve got the rest covered.
Amen. Om shanti. Shalom.
You can only do what ONLY YOU can do.
Do that.
The universe will configure around your very best efforts.
Willingly.
Love to you all,
Jeane
Oh! Thank you for reminding me of this post!! It could be on my wall – it really sounds like it would be set to some sort of peppy music as well lol…I am listening to classical music which I love, but now I want something zippy and a bit unwonted to lift my listening experience:)
I AM working on the change of photos of your art to vector graphics…life just gets in the way for me to do it in one swoop. I was offered and have accepted a volunteer position and so a scholarship for my on going Qigong education so I am doing a fair bit of maintenance (email etc) and support work for these seminars – It is what I have focused on having happen so it is GREAT:) This way I am more involved than simply attending the workshops.
XOXOXO
Grace:)
The photo is beautiful…do you have inches upon inches of snow now? Ours is gone, no “sniff” from me actually…but snow where you are is very appropriate (read manageable) and magical:)
It’s a good one, isn’t it? Thank YOU for sharing it.
Congratulations on your scholarship! That’s fantastic. It is hard to find time to address the idea of the paintings being turned into something else. I think part of that for both of us is that we don’t have a rug maker signed up with us. If we did, the project would flow.
Most of our snow is gone now but it looks like a storm–maybe a long one–is due in on Friday, fingers crossed. We need it.
rug maker rug maker come to us rug maker…
The Qigong – I am pretty sure is why the idea came to me about making the rugs into other items…so the more I do, the closer I get to the next step with products and other ideas.
I believe that to the fiber of my being. The idea was delivered to you and is being manifested.
AMEN and so it is WHOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
🙂
Yes… breathing and making a space for them to appear. 🙂
I think I will send this on again to some folks that would enjoy it:)!! I forget who I shared it with, but now they can see it here on your site and have a double shot of shiva.
Yes, it deserves to be shared again and again.
This post is very helpful. I often wrestle with creativity and always toy with the idea of “giving up on art.” I am great at homemaking, and being a husband and father, but I have a calling to make material art as well. I appreciate art a lot better than I am at making it, but I can’t quite give it up. I admire your web-site as an art-piece in itself. I read it when I decide to “quit” and it helps me move on. Thanks for the inspiration and ideas.
I can’t tell you how meaningful your words are to me, James. I’m deeply grateful that something on the blog can touch you and keep you going. But then, letters like these keep ME going, when I’m ready to give up on writing. THANK YOU.
Here is an earlier post (it didn’t successfully make some digital transition at some point so all the photos got dumped to the bottom of the post, but I hope you can forgive that) that speaks a little bit to what you’re facing: http://high-road-artist.com/880/artistic-process/art-as-process-not-product/.
Try as diligently as you can to give yourself the freedom to create from joy, without expectation, for YOUR artist’s eye and heart only. THEY don’t matter. There is no good and bad art–just an expression that springs deep from inside of you. What could be better than that?
I can’t tell you how meaningful your words are to me, James. I’m deeply grateful that something on the blog can touch you and keep you going. But then, letters like these keep ME going, when I’m ready to give up on writing. THANK YOU.
Here is an earlier post (it didn’t successfully make some digital transition at some point so all the photos got dumped to the bottom of the post, but I hope you can forgive that) that speaks a little bit to what you’re facing: http://high-road-artist.com/880/artistic-process/art-as-process-not-product/.
Try as diligently as you can to give yourself the freedom to create from joy, without expectation, for YOUR artist’s eye and heart only. THEY don’t matter. There is no good and bad art–just an expression that springs deep from inside of you. What could be better than that?