Jan Phillips Quotes

• I believe a woman who loves herself is a powerful, passionate, attractive force and I commit from this day forward to love myself deeply and extravagantly

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  Powerful, Believe, Passionate

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• Find what brings you joy and go there.

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  Vacation, Joy, Going On Vacation

  Jan Phillips (2012). “Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity”, p.12, Quest Books

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• To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics . . . To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark . . . To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Artist

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• You can tell the real Christians by their acts. They are the ones serving, the ones loving, the ones sharing whatever they have. They are withholding judgment, offering compassion, being that light they want to see in the world. They are the hands and the feet of God on earth, vessels of holiness, chalices of generosity. The next time someone calls himself a Christian, look for these qualities for the living proof.

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  Christian, Real, Compassion

  "Republicans and the Christian Vote" by Jan Phillips, www.huffingtonpost.com. Februuary 19, 2012.

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• Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name to produce a body of work that says, This is how I saw the world. Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

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  Names, World, Body

  Jan Phillips (2012). “Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity”, p.9, Quest Books

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• We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely spend any of it on ourselves. We complain that we can't make what time we have go around, yet day after day we spend our allotment doing things we don't really want to be doing.

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  Time, Complaining, Culture

  Jan Phillips (2012). “Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity”, p.5, Quest Books

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• Remember, we are creating the lives we're about to enter into.

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  Creating, Remember

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• We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.

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  Memories, Regret, Fear

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• I believe that what it is I have been called to do will make itself known when I have made myself ready.

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  Believe, Preparation, Made

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• I believe that the Source from which we come is alive in us as our breath, and as we speak and sing and breathe, we release the beauty of the Creator into the world.

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  Believe, Alive, World

  Jan Phillips (2013). “Finding the On-Ramp to Your Spiritual Path: A Roadmap to Joy and Rejuvenation”, p.130, Quest Books

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• There's someone out there who needs you. You must live your life so that person can find you.

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  Live Your Life, Needs, Need You

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• May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.

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  Eye, Dark, Fire

  Jan Phillips, Cathy Conheim, Christine Forester, Circle of Women (2000). “A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call”, Breakthru Press

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• To be an aritst is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, claim our lives.

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  Waiting, Claims, Our Lives

  Jan Phillips (2012). “Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity”, p.8, Quest Books

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• Mel Alexenberg offers a scintillating experiment in creativity. His work is an invitation to deepen your spiritual sensibilities as you extend your imagination.

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  Spiritual, Creativity, Imagination

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• Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.

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  Who We Are, Way, Autobiography

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• We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

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  Photographer, Language, Poet

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• God to me is the universe unfolding.

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  Unfolding, Universe

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• The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.

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  Sweet, Real, Joy

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