Sabbatical Fruit

You may know I believe in Sabbaticals instead of vacations.

Why? Who wants to just vacate when you could connect to the Sacred?

Sabbath comes from the Hebrew and means: rest. This rest was intended for pleasure and for connecting to the Sacred. Or the pleasure of connecting to the Sacred.

I take road trips to Heaven every eight or nine weeks. I always use the principles you’ll find in my Get Wealthy First Program. On Sabbaticals, I spend even more time doing Gathering Deep Wealth. (http://bit.ly/e90Xje )

In May of 2009 my daughter Sasha, Suzanne, and I drove 1000s of miles to the Grand Canyon. Whilst walking the rim early one morning, I was caught by a particularly magical place. A doorway opened in my heart. Quickly, I drew what I saw.

When I got home to Seattle, I found the drawing wasn’t up to the job of making a final painting. So, in May of 2010, I went back and made a more detailed drawing.

At home I worked on the painting, and it still didn’t come together. October 2010 Suzanne and I went to Arches NP and Canyonlands NP. And out on a point of land at the very edge of the Island in the Sky I found yet another view. Dangling my feet over a 500 foot cliff (150 m), I drew.

Something shifted. When I got home, I was able to complete the original grand canyon image.


What’s the Point

Gathering deep wealth and visiting the sacred will make fundamental changes in your heart and soul. Keep doing it. Let the Sacred work on you. The shift will take place. Just keep hanging out in Sacred spaces.

Here’s a webpage with the art.
http://bodyandsoulmentor.net/GrandCanyonBuddhas.html

You can use this page for a browser home page that has some Sacred energy in it.

Here’s How -- First go to
http://bodyandsoulmentor.net/GrandCanyonBuddhas.html

Then in Internet Explorer go to Tools > then Internet Options > then click the General Tab. At the top you’ll see Home Page. Just click the Use Current box. Now whenever you open your browser, you’ll see the Buddhas in the Grand Canyon.

Walk in beauty,

William

P.S. You can get your copy of the obviously life enhancing Get Wealthy First Program here

=> http://bit.ly/e90Xje

P.P.S. As always, consider who you want to pass this goodie onto. Thanks.

Isn’t This Beautiful?

The Get Wealthy First Program I’m crafting for you is about living in the present and discovering deep wealth, right.

Here’s the painting by Kate Cutler I chose to be on the covers of the manuals and such.

Isn’t This Beautiful?

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Kate wrote this lovely note to me & she gave me permission to share it with you. She demonstrates the whole point of The Get Wealthy First Program beautifully --

Going into your site today, I was fascinated. No, I had no idea that you were "art related" as well. Wonderful.

Reading about how difficult it is/was for you to call yourself an artist I
was reminded of my doing the same. Always I have been a 'designer' but never an artist.

It was in my senior year in art school (age 52) that I was angrily muttering over a technical problem I was trying to resolve in my Interior Design thesis. One of the professors came up to me said, "that's because you are an artist!" I said, "A WHAT"??? Never did it enter my mind and I really couldn't absorb it either.

After being divorced a year later, I had to turn to something to make money and the rest is history. I started in my parent's garage/workshop amidst dust and band saws and carved out just enough room for my drafting table.

Several years later, I built my (now) home and studio, a converted bunch of shops in town, but it still took me a while to hang out my sign! It was a weird identity, and now I can't imagine anything else. I am totally an artist in every sense. AND, I have discovered other artists on both sides of my family since. Never too late I say. It's been a new beginning and life.

House Beautiful has published my little cottage, so I feel my ID degree was christened as well.

Some of us just take a little longer to be found. Guess past tense doesn't work for that one. Still at it:)

Katie

May you be blessed by her story and her art.

Kate Cutler - www.kateleighcutler.com Get some for yourself.

Again:

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.


And stay tuned for updates and surprises for The Get Wealthy First Program.

Go for it => http://GetWealthyFirst.com

Blessings,

William

P.S. While you’re waiting for The Get Wealthy First Program, you could read the Magic Formula, clearly, this would be a good time. It shows you How to Magically Attract the Life You Most Want

Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/28gmm2.

P.P.S. You have my permission to share this story with no more than three people.

Mind Altering Quotes

I have one space left for my class FLOW: THE MAGIC OF MAKIN ART. If you want to come, call me 206.328.2073. You can read more about it and get on the email notification list here

=> http://www.VitalArts.net/events/

I though you might enjoy these quotes that I will be handing out in class on Saturday.

What spaces do they open up for you?

What new perspective?

QUOTES FOR THE CLASS

One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. - T.S. Eliot,

Good artists copy; great artists steal. - Picasso

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. - Picasso A long, long time is needed to be young. -- Picasso I like to live poor... but with a lot of money. -- Picasso It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. -- Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Picasso

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Picasso

We painted like children in the face of nature. - Henri Matisse

When I started to paint, I felt transported into a kind of paradise. - Henri Matisse

My advice is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. -- Thornton Wilder.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. - Buddha

In one of the spate of dance movies of a few years ago, the beautiful woman asks the gorgeous man, "Do you know how to dance?"

"I'm Cuban, of course, I know how to dance," he says.

This response reminds me of something I read about Bali.
They have no word for artist. And that is because, like the Cubans and dancing, they presume that if you are Balinese, of course, you are an artist. - Reflections from William

Blessings,

William

P.S. Speaking of great quotes here's a magic message from Uncle Mike --

If you ask me, Www, I'd say the main thing to keeping the main thing the main thing, is reminding yourself as often as you can of where the most joy will come from.

Ain't no thing -

The Universe

If you aren't getting these magic messages from Uncle Mike, read my review of Mike's goodies including this fabulous freebee.

Go for it = > http://tinyurl.com/3yu6yz

P.P.S. You have my permission to share this story with no more than three people.

Here Is What Happened To Matisse…

Here is what happened to Matisse the first time he took up brush to paint –

“When I started to paint, I felt transported into a kind of paradise.”

He’s talking about flow. He’s talking about the right brain. He’s talking about the Buddha brain. He’s talking about conscious action. He’s talking about presence.

Art of any sort has the ability to put you into the graceful state of flow. When you are in flow, you enjoy what you’re doing. You lose self-consciousness. Your sense of time changes. It disappears completely. It stops dead in frozen, perfect moments. Or it flies.

If you’re in the Seattle area on Nov. 8th 2008, you can join us for FLOW AND THE MAGIC OF MAKING ART. Go here for details.

=> http://www.VitalArts.net/events/

And do sign up to be informed of future classes.

IF YOU’RE NOT going to be in Seattle, paint. Get books on making art. Visit the libraries of the universe. Go to art museums. Paint. Draw. Sketch. Doodle. Use your right brain. You could start with the amazing book -- DRAWING FROM THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0874774195/williamwittmannvA/


Do watch this video about the right brain done by Jill Bolte Taylor, a woman who had a brain breakdown and lost her left brain, thereby making her completely right brained. Fascinating. (Note: Oprah has some interviews with her on-line as well.)

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html


P.S. If you are not in the Seattle area on Nov. 8th, you can learn about flow in my Life Giving Manual - THE MAGIC FORMULA -- How to Magically Attract the Life You Most Want.

Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/28gmm2

Obviously, even if you are in Seattle you’ll benefit immensely when you get it.

Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/28gmm2