The Guidance of Higher Forces

– Art: Riccardo Martinelli

Here’s another excerpt from Julia Cameron’s book Transitions: Prayers and Declarations for a Changing Life. Like the first excerpt I recently shared, I find this one to be both meaningful and timely.

Life is often turbulent. The rapids and eddies of the day’s events may pull at our consciousness like tiny hands. Beneath the turbulence of daily living, there is a longer, slower pulse of perfect timing. It is to that rhythm that I give my soul. I listen beneath the turbulence of daily life. I open myself to the guidance of higher forces. I ask for and receive adjustments in my priorities. I allow myself to find the tempo most attuned to my personal unfolding.

Today, I act and respond with a sense of the larger view, the truer goals. I give myself assurance that God’s timing is my own and serves my own best interests.

– Julia Cameron
From Transitions: Prayers & Declarations
for a Changing Life
Jeremy P. Tarcher / Putnam, 1999
p. 117

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Seeking Higher Perceptions
• Your True Source
• The Dance of Life
• Love’s the Only Dance
• Finding Balance in the Presence of the Beloved
• The Soul of a Dancer
• The Art of Dancing as the Supreme Symbol of the Spiritual Life
• A Prayer for Dancers
• We All Dance
• Not Whether We Dance, But How
• And As We Dance . . .
• Aristotle Papanikolaou on How Being Religious is Like Being a Dancer
• A Kind of Dancing Divinity
• Divine Connection
• Aligning With the Living Light
• Mystical Participation
• The Source Is Within You
• A Season of Listening – Part I | II | III | IV | V | VI
• Move Us, Loving God
• “Then I Shall Leap Into Love”

Image: “Dancer” (detail) by Riccardo Martinelli.