{"id":3282,"date":"2015-06-23T16:19:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T23:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2015-06-29T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T04:26:07","slug":"june-23-2015-books-that-pulled-me-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/dev\/life-stories\/june-23-2015-books-that-pulled-me-along\/","title":{"rendered":"June 23, 2015 &#8211; Books that pulled me along"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/dev\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/dev\/life-stories\/june-23-2015-books-that-pulled-me-along\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><div id=\"attachment_3280\" style=\"width: 578px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/first-marriage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3280\" class=\"wp-image-3280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/first-marriage-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"My 25-year old self. Young, lovely and on her way.\" width=\"568\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/first-marriage-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/first-marriage-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/first-marriage-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/first-marriage-200x132.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/first-marriage.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My 25-year old self. Young, lovely and on her way.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Recording of post coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>I was married for the first time when I was 25. My college boyfriend and I asked my dad\u2019s oldest friend, Jerry Lucey to perform our ceremony. He was incredibly well-read, could recite Irish poetry and had an amazing presence. He was a Universal Life Church minister and ours was not his first wedding to preside over. Since neither one of us had any affiliation with any minister or judge, having Jerry marry us made perfect sense. When we met with him in his flat in the city (San Francisco) to talk about the ceremony I told Jerry I wanted no mention of \u201cGod.\u201d God meant nothing to me \u2013 or my fianc\u00e9. The <a title=\"Paul Stookey song &quot;There is Love&quot;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aZbhrO4IEtI\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Stookey song \u201cThere is Love\u201d<\/a> was the only way God was mentioned on June 27, 1987. As I look back, this stands out very clearly to me as ground zero in my spiritual journey. The next eight years played out with alcoholism and co-dependency, the pain of which brought me to my knees. And it gave me my inner life.<\/p>\n<p>I get many of the inspirations for what to write on Tuesdays when I\u2019m lying in bed, just barely awake. Yesterday I was thinking about the dozens of books that have contributed pieces to the unfolding of my inner life, my growth. I thought I\u2019d share a few of them with you.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how I was led to the first one, but I read \u201cThe Celestine Prophecy\u201d in 1994. This book dawned in me the awareness of other dimensions of existence beyond the physical world, as well as other forces at work beyond my conscious mind and will. It was here that I first heard of \u201cenergy\u201d in its new-age sense. Shortly after that, I was lead to Marianne Williamson\u2019s \u201cA Return to Love,\u201d her book on The Course in Miracles, which helped me start to realize that I there might be a point to how hard my life felt.<\/p>\n<p>I was still in Burlingame \u2013 where I lived in my first marriage \u2013 when was introduced to Pema Chodron! I wish I could remember how I was led to \u201cThe Wisdom of No Escape.\u201d Thumbing through it now, it\u2019s astonishing that I encountered this wisdom so early in my process. I imagine my self-back-then reading this passage: \u201cWe see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn\u2019t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it\u2019s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it\u2019s all mixed up together, it\u2019s us: humanness. \u2026 Both the brilliance and the suffering are here all the time; they interpenetrate each other.\u201d All I saw at that point was that it was all \u201cbad\u201d \u2013 that there could be something \u201cgood\u201d for me in it helped me see that my panic attacks could be telling me something.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this list includes Julia Cameron\u2019s \u201cThe Artist\u2019s Way.\u201d Because of this book, I wrote Morning Pages for the five years from about 1995-2000 \u2013 from just before leaving my first marriage until Joe and I were married. These were years I chose my <em>self<\/em>, I chose <em>my<\/em> life &#8211; which I don\u2019t think would have been possible without Morning Pages. And I still take strength and direction from this passage: \u201cAnger is the firestorm that signals the death our old life. Anger is the fuel that propels us into our new one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crack in my belief that life was \u201cbeing done to me\u201d started my transformation. The next few years included separation, divorce, living in Paris, and then coming home, facing my loneliness \u2013 I had the <em>hardest<\/em> time being single. And then in 2003-2004 infertility spurned a second big \u201cwave\u201d of change in me \u2013 leaving a career that was so far outside my feminine soul\u2019s call.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Monk Kidd talked about her fears in her spiritual memoir, \u201cThe Dance of the Dissident Daughter.\u201d She had a successful career as a Christian writer, which had become her identity. But then there was this voice. \u201cThere is this other clamoring in me, too. The desire I\u2019ve carried around but never dared. The thing I thought I could never do. Now here it is. The urge to create characters and stories. The ones that are mine to tell. Fiction, the passion tells me. Fiction. &#8230;I cannot stop thinking how brave I will have to be to follow it.\u201d And what came out was the New York Times bestseller, \u201cThe Secret Life of Bees!\u201d Ok, I get it, these voices <em>must<\/em> be listened to! And I <em>must<\/em> listen to mine!<\/p>\n<p>Ekhart Tolle\u2019s first spiritual blockbuster \u201cThe Power of Now\u201d played a part for me \u2013 life is all about our consciousness unfolding. In his book \u201cA New Earth\u201d it is <em>this<\/em> passage that has me understand why so many of us are drawn to flowers: \u201cEarth, 114 million years ago, one morning just after sunrise: The first flower ever to appear on the planet opens up to receive the rays of the sun\u2026.Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature. The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human consciousness.\u201d I\u2019m now fully validated, painting flowers is not trivial in any way, it\u2019s in fact right at the center of our evolution! Oh, is that <em>all<\/em>?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3281\" style=\"width: 579px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/plumeria-light.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3281\" class=\"wp-image-3281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/plumeria-light.jpg\" alt=\"The pink plumeria tree from the garden where we stayed in Kauai last month. Future painting ...stay tuned.\" width=\"569\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/plumeria-light.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/plumeria-light-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/plumeria-light-600x448.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/plumeria-light-200x149.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pink plumeria tree from the garden where we stayed in Kauai last month. Future painting &#8230; stay tuned.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love skipping to the end of newspaper articles, magazine stories and books. I have read Steven Pressfield\u2019s \u201cThe Wart of Art\u201d all the way through, and much of it over and over, the end is worth reading all on its own \u2013 it\u2019s a call to answer our call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action. Do it or don\u2019t do it. It may help to think of it this way: If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don\u2019t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet. You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite the Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter farther along its path back to God. Creative work is not a selfish act, or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It\u2019s a gift to the world and every living being in it. Don\u2019t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few of the passages that I keep going back to. There are many more books that have made their contribution to me. A few more follow at the end of this post.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s incredible for me to reflect on the woman I was 28 years ago this coming weekend. The God that my 25-year-old-self had no place for was a God based on my outsider\u2019s understanding of Judeo-Christian religion. The God that is now at the center of everything for me is a God that is so much bigger, so much deeper and integral to all that is. I\u2019m truly grateful for all the pain and suffering that has loosened me from my dug-in stance that all the answers come from my rational brain and has allowed me to progressively surrender to a knowing that I, you, we are all expressions of this energy, this force, expressions of God. And our lives, our joys, our suffering \u2013 including all we create &#8211; are a reflection of our progress towards our true nature \u2013 our beauty. God is in and through these books. I\u2019m grateful to their authors for bringing them through.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Care<\/p>\n<p>A few more books:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Millionth Circle &#8211; by Jean Shinoda Bolen \u2013 the hundredth monkey story is worth the whole book.<br \/>\n\u2022 Eat Pray Love \u2013 by Elizabeth Gilbert \u2013 ok, so who spends months in Rome and only goes to one museum, the Museum of Pasta!? I love the permission to prioritize pleasure!<br \/>\n\u2022 A Path with Heart \u2013 by Jack Kornfield \u2013 I once did a short meditation from this book for about an hour while on a bus returning home from the city. I got off the bus and all the flowers were extra clear, sharp and vibrant \u2013 it altered my consciousness!<br \/>\n\u2022 Wouldn\u2019t Take Nothin for this Journey Now \u2013 By Maya Angelou \u2013 her sovereignty emboldens me.<br \/>\n\u2022 Gifts from the Sea \u2013 by Anne Morrow Lindburg &#8211; just poetry.<br \/>\n\u2022 The Naked Now \u2013 by Richard Rohr \u2013 the idea of non-dual thinking has brought immense peace.<br \/>\n\u2022 All of Anne Lamott\u2019s non-fiction \u2013 every single one. Bird by Bird\u2019s chapter title \u201cShitty First Drafts\u201d allowed me to let myself write \u2013 something I told myself I was incapable of.<br \/>\n\u2022 Art and Fear \u2013 by David Bayles and Ted Orland \u2013 this book affirms everything I observe in myself and others as we make art and even attempt to live a creative life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recording of post coming soon. I was married for the first time when I was 25. 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