As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.
Life is a spiritual dance and that our unseen partner has steps to teach us if we will allow ourselves to be led. The next time you are restless, remind yourself it is the universe asking 'Shall we dance?
Leap, and the net will appear.
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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)
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.
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.
Serious art is born from serious play.
No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.
Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise...As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.
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.
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
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Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.
We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.
It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.
Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.
Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.
Art is born in attention.
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
