In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.
It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature
To write is to right things. A path will emerge.
And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.
While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex and highly individual, yet there are common recognizable denominators to the creative recovery process.
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.
There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.
Love is not love if it is compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.
Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. There is something very right about simply letting yourself write. And the way to do that is to begin, to begin where you are.
I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.
Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.
Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.
Workaholism is a block, not a building block.
It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.
When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach.
I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.
Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
I am due at the page.
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