What We Ache For: Creativity and the Unfolding of Your Soul

In her previous books Oriah Mountain Dreamer has challenged readers to live with passion and honesty to embrace the true fallible human self. What We Ache For is a moving and eloquent call to delve deeply into our creative selves to do our creative work and offer it to the world.The creative process is essential to human nature. It is as essential as spirituality and sexuality and in fact all three are deeply intertwined. What We Ache For is a practical book allowing readers to embrace the urgency and necessity of their creativity whatever their medium -- writing painting sculpture dance music or film. As Oriah says Doing creative work allows us to follow the thread of what we ache for into a deeper life offering us a way to cultivate a life of making love to the world.Following Oriah through this journey in such chapters as The Seduction of the Artist Learning to See and Risk and Sacrifice What We Ache For challenges and inspires readers to fully embrace their artistic selves as a way of forging a path of spiritual unfolding.

Hardcover: 240 pages

Publisher: HarperOne; First Edition edition (April 5 2005)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0060011963

ISBN-13: 978-0060011963

Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces