What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?
Leap, and the net appears.
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?
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)
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.
We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.
Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.
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.
Money cannot fill an empty soul.
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
A working artist is a playing artist.
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.
Expect the universe to support your dream. It will.
In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.
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.
In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
My will for you is not harsh or unpleasant. It is gentle and perfectly tailored to your unique needs. Do not fear my direction. I am your heart's happiest guide.
We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.
When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, "Wait. Not now." Sometimes the step is, "Work on something else for a while." When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.
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