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ALSO BY JULIA CAMERON

NONFICTION
The Artists Way
The Artists Way Morning Pages Journal
The Artists Date Book
(Illustrated by Elizabeth Libby Cameron)
The Vein of Gold
The Right to Write
God is No Laughing Matter
Supplies
(Illustrated by Elizabeth Libby Cameron)
God is Dog Spelled Backwards
Blessings
Transitions
The Artists Way at Work
(with Mark Bryan and Catherine Allen)
Money Drunk, Money Sober
(with Mark Bryan)
FICTION
The Dark Room
Popcorn: Hollywood Stories
PLAYS
Public Lives
The Animal in the Trees
Four Roses
Love in the DMZ
Avalon (a musical)
The Medium at Large (a musical)
POETRY
Prayers for the Little Ones
Prayers for the Nature Spirits
The Quiet Animal
This Earth (also an album with Tim Wheater)
FEATURE FILM
Gods Will

JEREMY P. TARCHER / PUTNAM
a member of Penguin Putnam Inc.
New York

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.

With that, he handed me the tiny book.

What a revolution that tiny book caused in my life and in my thinking! I had never read prayers like those, prayers spoken with the confident assurance that God, or Mind, was deeply, personally interested and interactive in our livesif we would just speak the word that opened the door that opens the heart.

From 1979 until now, I have worked withand played withthe power of the positive word. I have found the techniques in this book not merely enlivening or empowering, but actually healing. They have given me a creative life.

Julia Cameron

The power of the word
is real whether or not
you are conscious of it.

Your own words are the
bricks and mortar of the
dreams you want to realize.
Behind every word flows energy.

SONIA CHOQUETTE

THE UNIVERSE RESPONDS TO MY DREAMS AND NEEDS

There is a unity flowing through all things. This unity is responsive to our needs. Unity responds and reacts to our positive spoken word. We are co-creative beings working withand withina larger whole. We embrace and contain this Source, which embraces and contains us. Drawing upon this Inner Source, we have an unlimited supply.

Through the act of affirmative
prayer the limitless resources
of the Spirit are at my command.
The power of the Infinite
is at my disposal.

ERNEST HOLMES

I HAVE THE POWER TO RECEIVE GREAT ABUNDANCE

I open myself to a more abundant flow. I source myself in the Universe and recognize that the Universe is unlimited in its abundance. I allow myself to receive abundance as a show of the power of God working through me. I allow my life to be made abundant and rich as an example that the power of God can make life abundant and rich. I accept increased flow as proof of Gods power. I am receptive soil for Gods gardening hands.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

WILLIAM BLAKE

THE DREAMS OF MY HEART ARE THE DREAMS OF THE UNIVERSE DREAMING THROUGH ME

I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world. I am a portal, an entryway for the grace and power of God to show themselves in the world. As I move toward my fulfillment, God moves toward fulfillment. I am a particle and an article of faith. As I accept the power of God within me, I manifest that power in the world. What I desire is good and what I make is good. My creative nature brings blessings to me and to my world.

Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

NELSON MANDELA

THE GREAT CREATOR CREATES THROUGH ME

We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is Gods gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God. It is the natural extension of our creative nature to manifest our dreams. Our dreams come from a divine source. Moving in the direction of our dreams moves us toward our divinity.

Many people pray and receive the answer to their prayers, but ignore themor deny them, because the answers didnt come in the expected form.

SOPHY BURNHAM

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