Urge

URGE = to demand earnestly, to push forward, stimulate, provoke; to insist, impel

QUESTION: Do you feel something urging you to move forward?

STORY: It was 1980 when I read in the LA Times that the Getty Foundation was looking for a way to avoid paying huge taxes on their wealth. They thought about creating an Art Apprenticeship Program or maybe building an art museum. I wrote them a letter because I wanted to study Art with a Master Artist. Well, the Getty family decided to create the Getty Museum and then I opened myself to a miracle when I became an Art Apprentice to Norwegian Master Artist, Jan Valentin Saether. It was my urge to connect my ten years of 4th Way Spiritual Work with The Prosperos School of Ontology - to my love of creativity that opened up a whole new life experience. I not only met incredible people and lived in a small studio on Point Dume overlooking dolphins swimming north - but, I also participated in drawing out a whole new level of creative expression.

QUOTES

“The creative urge in us is the connecting link that can restore us to the wholeness we have lost. The medicine is already within.” ~ Jan Valentin Saether

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” ~ Ursula Leguin

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way for your soul to grow. So do it." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

"Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way." ~ Edward de Bono

EXERCISE

STOP.

Relax.

Feel the energy within you. Listen to your Energy. Know that this Energy within you carries an urge that waits for you to recognize it.

Get your pen and paper and draw out this ENERGY, this URGE. Use words or just draw squiggles and lines expressing something that calls you to move forward. Happy travels dear friend!