Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.
We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.
... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth.
The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.
As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all.
It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.
Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.
You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)
We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.
When we stop playing God, God can play through us.
We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.
We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters
We must learn to let the flow manifest itself where it will.....not where we will it.
Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.
"God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.
But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.
We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.
Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.
Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
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