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Take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors flying open
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.
Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.
You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.
Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.
No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.
Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence.
I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.
When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.
Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.
As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.
We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.
In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.
Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.
When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature
Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing.
Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.
We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.
Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.
I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.
By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.
We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength
As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.
All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.
It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.
There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.
Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.