Creating from the Spirit: Living Each Day As a Creative Act - Hardcover

Providing a thought-provoking introduction to the roots of creativity, the best-selling author of Expect a Miracle explains how to unleash creativity within ourselves and how to bring it to bear in every aspect of our lives. Tour.

day is a creation--not only for us but by us . . . a moment-by-moment miracle."
Dan Wakefield recounted his own pilgrimage through the heady peaks and grim gulches of a creative life in Returning: A Spiritual Journey, which Bill Moyers called "one of the most important memoirs of the spirit I've ever read." Now, in Creating from the Spirit, this award-winning journalist and novelist reveals how writers, artists, musicians, and creative people of all kinds can unleash the principle of creativity within, so that it can infuse every aspect of our lives.
Wakefield explodes the many myths often associated with the mysterious creative process: that creativity is only for the artistic elite, that women's work is less creative than men's, and that to be creative means one must be tormented, alienated, neurotic, irresponsible, and a failure at relationships. The truth is that many of us are blocked by low self-esteem, unrealistic expectations, stultifying routine, or the double demo