One Last Book Signing! Please come and Enjoy the Gallery, Wine, and Live Music!

Author Lecture & Book Signing

Saturday 1/24/15 6:30-8:30pm

ACCI Gallery is pleased to host:

A PRESENTATION AND DIALOGUE with AUTHOR

DR. LAURA BASHA

· Enjoy a glass of wine while Dr. Basha talks about her 35-plus years of transformational work with people from all walks of life, and the inspiration behind writing her book, 

· The Inward Outlook.

· The talk will be followed by a Book Signing

· Copies of the book will be available for purchase

The Inward Outlook encourages readers to find guidance from within.  Basha says, "This book points you in the direction of realizing that the guru is within you.  Everything you're looking for, you already have." 

 The event is free of charge, however, seating is limited.

Email us at info@accigallery.com to reserve seating.

www.bashabooks.com

Michell Follett | Gallery Coordinator

ACCI Gallery

1652 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709

510-843-2527

www.accigallery.com

Don't Quit!!!

Collage, 2007, by Laura Basha

People have asked me about how much it took to write this latest book I completed and published. They admire that I have done it; they are completely respectful of what it has taken. It’s really very acknowledging of them to communicate this to me, and I appreciate it.

But let me tell you something – I have the same unrelenting and loud screaming voice in my head as everyone else: “You don’t need to get up at 4:30am! Go back to sleep, you can write later today, or even tomorrow …”, or “WHY are you writing a BOOK?! WHO needs another BOOK on the planet for heaven’s sake?!” or, “What makes you think YOU could write a book anyone would want to read?!”, and on and on and on.

So I had to dig deep sometimes, and reconnect to the powerful creative pull calling faintly through the cacophony of invalidating internal verbal assaults. I just kept choosing the music of the Muse, one proverbial foot in front of the other.

So, I came across this quote today, and I wanted to share it with all of us working on breaking up the anti-creativity tar-baby-of-negativity that this impersonal and incessant inner shrew or seductive cajoler is committed to expressing, to keep us from our authentic self-expression.

I will just say to you: listen to the Muse, and don’t quit!

“RESISTANCE IS INSIDIOUS”

“Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. It will perjure, fabricate, falsify; seduce, bully, cajole. Resistance is protean. It will assume any form, if that’s what it takes to deceive you. It will reason with you like a lawyer or jam a nine-millimeter in your face like a stickup man. Resistance has no conscience. It will pledge anything to get a deal, then double-cross you as soon as your back is turned. If you take Resistance at its word, you deserve everything you get. Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.”

~ from The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield

Please Join Us!

Author Lecture & Book Signing


Saturday 1/24/15 6:30-8:30pm

ACCI Gallery is pleased to host:

A PRESENTATION AND DIALOGUE with AUTHOR

DR. LAURA BASHA

· Enjoy a glass of wine while Dr. Basha talks about her 35-plus years of transformational work with people from all walks of life, and the inspiration behind writing her book, 

· The Inward Outlook.

· The talk will be followed by a Book Signing

· Copies of the book will be available for purchase

The Inward Outlook encourages readers to find guidance from within.  Basha says, "This book points you in the direction of realizing that the guru is within you.  Everything you're looking for, you already have." 

 The event is free of charge, however, seating is limited.

Email us at info@accigallery.com to reserve seating.

www.bashabooks.com

Michell Follett | Gallery Coordinator

ACCI Gallery

1652 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709

510-843-2527

www.accigallery.com

JOY TO THE WORLD!!!

JOY TO THE WORLD!

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me

there lay an invincible summer.”

~ Albert Camus

It’s December 1^st, and I just watched a beautiful sunset within this brief window of no rain in a week of much-needed rainy days.

The days are shorter, the nights longer. Cozy nights by a fire, soups, holiday movies and lots of reading – all call to us, whereas 6 months ago we were still out running errands and working and just being busy until the sun set much later in the day.

If we look at Life as a metaphor, we could see the symbolism within nature’s timetable. Less time for outer activity, more time for inner reflection. As the season gets colder, nature slows down, hibernates, leaves fall from the trees, growth slows or stops, and nature lies fallow to replenish and rejuvenate for Spring and its expansion.

We too could slow down, reflect, review the past accomplishments of the year, consider what we could evolve and grow into in the coming year, with the renewed capacities born of rest and reflection.

It is the Christmas season. It is the season for many spiritual traditions to celebrate the birth of an awakened consciousness. In the dark and quiet seclusion of the deepest winter night, a star lights the way to the birth of the King. In the dark and quiet seclusion of our deepest reflection, wisdom unfolds, gathering substance as we allow ourselves time to be present to quietness. Wisdom emerges as inspired and awakened consciousness, lighting the way for our own inner sage to find voice, ready to take form in the coming longer days of Spring.

Peace within emanating to peace without, choosing peace for all who think of us, all who speak of us,

all whom we contact.

Happiest of holidays to us all!

Joy to the world!

WE COME AND WE GO

New Hampshire Maple

October 29, 2014

WE COME AND WE GO

Having just spent the last week in New Hampshire, I was inspired by the few remnants of fall foliage that were still pulsating their color outward. I pulled over while driving to capture a photo of the glorious golden yellow maple above.

The inevitable transition from living to dying is evident everywhere there is life. I was in New Hampshire to say goodbye to my dear brother-in-law, Roger, a salt-of-the-earth Yankee, a truly good man. Roger made his transition after a long illness yesterday morning, peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by his devoted wife, (my extraordinary sister), and their loving family. They loved him. We all loved him.

All of us lose those we love to the transition we call death. It is an inevitable journey we are all making. Miraculously, Roger's granddaughter, Scarlet, was born 24 hours before he left his body. They passed in the ethers, perhaps with a high five.

We come and we go.

Godspeed.

“… I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!” 

~ Henry Scott Holland, Death Is Nothing At All