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By Julia Cameron

BOOKS IN THE ARTISTS WAY SERIES

The Artists Way
Walking in This World
Finding Water
The Complete Artists Way
The Artistss Way Workbook

OTHER BOOKS ON CREATIVITY

The Writing Diet
The Right to Write
The Sound of Paper
The Vein of Gold
The Artists Way Morning Pages Journal
The Artists Date Book
(illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron)
How to Avoid Making Art (or Anything Else You Enjoy)
(illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron)
Supplies: A Troubleshooting Guide for Creative Difficulties
Inspirations: Meditations from The Artists Way
The Writers Life: Insights from The Right to Write
The Artists Way at Work
(with Mark Bryan and Catherine Allen)
Money Drunk, Money Sober (with Mark Bryan)

PRAYER BOOKS

Answered Prayers
Heart Steps
Blessings
Transitions

BOOKS ON SPIRITUALITY

Prayers from a Nonbeliever
Letters to a Young Artist
God Is No Laughing Matter
God Is Dog Spelled Backwards
(illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron)

MEMOIR

Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir

FICTION

Mozarts Ghost
Popcorn: Hollywood Stories
The Dark Room

PLAYS

Public Lives
The Animal in the Trees
Four Roses
Love in the DMZ
Avalon (a musical)
The Medium at Large (a musical)
Magellan (a musical)

POETRY

Prayers for the Little Ones
Prayers to the Nature Spirits
The Quiet Animal
This Earth (also an album with Tim Wheater)

FEATURE FILM

(as writer-director) Gods Will

PREFACE

It is a chill, gray spring day, and yet forsythia are blooming, daffodils are out, and magnolia trees bear heavy buds, promising that they, too, will bloom again soon. Even in Manhattan, nature is a determined optimist. Hope is in the air. It is as though every bush and twig has said a prayer and is unfurling on blind faith. Despite the chill, spring prevails. Tutored by nature, we, too, can turn our hearts to hope. Using prayer, we can consciously connect to what Dylan Thomas called, the force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Like the natural world, we can say yes to God.

Prayer is the doorway to higher realms. When we pray, we practice swinging the door open. We forge a connection to the Great Creator. We voice an allelujah that sparks answering allelujahs. It is Gods desire to have a conversation with each of us. When we pray, we enter a dialogue with the divine. Even in times of great despair, when we feel ourselves speaking into a void, no prayer goes unanswered.

There are many forms of prayer. As a practice, it is as individual as we ourselves. There are prayers of celebration, gratitude, acceptance, and petition, to name but a few. The prayers collected in this volume reflect many different moods and colors. They have been written over a decades time, and reflect my own spiritual journey.

I have written these prayers as a response to many situations. They reflect my ongoing request for conscious contact with the Great Creator. It is my belief that God responds to each of us individually. The prayers I have written serve as a bridge from our regular, daily human consciousness to the divine. I believe that all prayers are filled with gracethat mysterious force which transforms our consciousness from barren to verdant. It is one of the ongoing ironies of the spiritual life that as we pray for others, we reap the benefit of prayer ourselves. It is my hope that this modest book will serve you as both guide and blueprint. I have written prayers which may in turn catalyze prayers of your own.

Use this volume as a spiritual stepping stone: each of the four books, now gathered as a bouquet, has a distinctive fragrance. Heart Steps celebrates our creative nature. Blessings offers prayers of gratitude. Transitions invokes grace in difficult passages, and finally, Answered Prayers gives us a hint of the care and compassion with which God regards his creatures.

Some of you may work through the book systematically; others may find wisdom in opening to a random page. No matter how you choose to use this volume, you will feel a heightened spiritual contact. That is the fruit of prayer.

In writing these prayers, I found myself more and more closely aligned with the Great Creator. Optimism and faith were among the gifts I received. May you find these gifts at your doorstep.

Heart Steps

Prayers and Declarations for a Creative Life

To those who have gone before us

INTRODUCTION

This small book is intended as a journey, an exploration into spiritual realms. I invite you to undertake it in the spirit of scientific inquiry. I ask you to experiment with these prayers and declarations and to record for yourself the results you observe in your life and in your consciousness.

Heart Steps is grounded in ancient spiritual tradition. You are asked to speak the word. In other words, this book is intended not merely to be read, but to be read aloud. (For this reason, I have made an audiotape combining the words of this book with the powerful music of my creative partner, Tim Wheater.)

In the beginning was the Word, Scripture tells us. The ancients sang the world into existence, Aboriginals believe. Ethiopians believe that the world and God Himself were created by God speaking His own name. In Hopi belief, it was Spider Woman who sang the world into existenceone word at a time. Indians believe, Nada Brahma: the world is sound. As even this brief scan suggests, it is difficult to find a spiritual tradition that does not emphasize the creative power of the word. From the Lakota songs of North America to the song lines crossing Australia, spiritual seekers have always used languagesoundas a safe haven. It is a stairway to higher consciousness as well. I do not ask you to believe this. Instead, I ask you to experiment and see for yourself whether this is true.

The tone of these prayers may at first startle you. These are declarative prayers. They do not beseech divine help, they assume it. These are not the prayers of a sinful, fallen nature begging for release. These are prayers spoken with confidence as children of the Universe. These prayers claim our birthright. They acknowledge and expand our co-creative bond with a power greater than ourselves. They are not the prayers of exile. They are the prayers of reunion, renewal, and return. God is not dead. God is not absent from our world. Our consciousness of God is what is missing. Conscious contact is what these prayers are all about.

In 1979, composer Billy May gave me a small book of prayers, Creative Ideas, by Dr. Ernest Holmes.

These have worked for me, Billy said.

Worked?

They clear the way.

At the time we were talking, I was newly sober and wondering just how to let myself be creative without alcohol as a crutch or a reward.

I think of it like this, Billy continued. If youre working on a project and you have a hundred creative horses, you want all of them with you. Now, if thirty of your horses are worried about money, and thirty of your horses are worried about the way the project will be received, you only have another forty to do the creative work at hand. These prayers help you to gather your horses.

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