I'm sure that many people will find comfort and inspiration in this book. Jerry is able to describe a spiritual journey outside of any ancient tradition or modern system, and I trust that originality. He avoids the many hollow words that sometimes enter contemporary spiritual thought and embodies the idea that you can be fully spiritual and fully secular at the same time. Jerry's experience shows that simply by being receptive to deep intuition and living intelligently from the heart, you can achieve a degree of holiness. In the old Sufi story people were amazed that Mojud, an untutored wanderer, developed the power to heal. I expect Jerry's book to be a source of healing, and so I can ask him the question put to Mojud: "Under whom did you study?" I would expect him to answer, "It is difficult to say."

Thomas Moore, author of -- Care of the Soul and The Reenchantment of Everyday Life

"One of the most magnificent things about Jerry is his profound and courageous innocence. He has created a friendship with a part of himself which is in love with the world, and his art displays that. Jerry is one of the few people I know who, in a very quiet way, has actually claimed his happiness in existence."
David Whyte author- The Heart Aroused and Crossing the Unknown Sea

"If you  listen to what Jerry has shared with us you will know how our wisest healers deal with the people in our world. Each person needs someone to 'listen' to them. Jerry has brought us to the inside of listening. Thank you Jerry for your compassion and your true and generous gift of listening and allowing us to eavesdrop. Dahadubul, you have honored each of us with the words shared in this book. These words express your beautiful gift of honoring life in all of its forms."
Vi Hilbert-- 83 year old Salish Elder, Storyteller and Author of Haboo: Native American Stories from the Puget Sound

This artist's thoughts and experiences of living on the edge will expand and challenge your vision of life's possibilities. Travel along in the "now" as Wennstrom surfs the waves of life and carries the most colorful people with him.
Joe Kulin Publisher Parabola Magazine

In Jerry Wennstrom, his life is his art and art his life, a seamless flow from inner to outer expression of light and dark, multileveled, joyously humored and lit with authentic experience of being in service to its source. Above all, this artist has learned to listen to the language of the larger life as it wishes to be lived through him in all its joy, creativity, reverence - and as healing power for our time.     

Claire Dunne - Author- CG Jung - Wounded Healer of the Soul

 In giving up everything - possessions, attachments, even speech and food - Jerry Wennstrom found his true self, and something more: the wellspring of human nature. His art reflects that deep level of knowing which links each of us to that part of our nature which is  eternal
Deloris Tarzan Ament, author, Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art, and Dark Visions: The Art of Annihilation. (And art critic for The Seattle Times for over twenty years)

 

"Few of us have emptied our cup as completely as Jerry Wennstrom did when he destroyed his art in 1979, and therefore few have experienced as deep a reawakening to the subtle stirrings of the divine in everyday life. It's hard for me to convey how deeply I respect what Jerry shares with us in his book /,The Inspired Heart, /in his art, and above all in his person. Here is a completely genuine voice of creative spirit."                                                                                     
Chris Bache, author of "Dark Night, Early Dawn".

Jerry Wennstrom's book, is an unconditional gift. Calm and generous to the core, we see how the art form of his life comes full circle. Jerry's story illustrates the outrageous transformational healing which comes with a direct and fearless confrontation with death. Everything magically fits into place. As Wennstrom writes in the final chapter of, his book "The personal link to the sacred is all there is when we are fully engaged in our own true
life." This book engages us in a life worth emulation.
Laura Chester, author, Holy Personal; The Story of the Lake and Lupus Novice

"We have in Jerry Wennstrom's work something that is very needed for our current times: a life placed in service of the soul's depth. This surrender to a deeper calling and the conviction necessary to craft a life that supports such a response is medicine for our troubled times. If we could all dip into the wellspring of creative faith that Jerry has manifested then our world would be a better place. Jerry is an artist that shows us how to have the courage to bring healing to our world. This is one of the highest callings any of can have and we owe a debt to Jerry for helping to guide us on our collective journey. --David La Chapelle, author-- Navigating the Tides of Change

The Inspired Heart -- A needed true to life mythic story - Jerry Wennstrom's narrative is piercing and irresistible. His courageous quest for spirit and meaning in a world blinded by consumerism is a modern fairy tale to find the source of art and inspiration. His stories invite the fearless heart to open.

Laura Simms-- International storyteller Author of Author of Bone Man and The Robe of Love

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