Walk with me to the edge of the city, / Take off your shoes and feel the earth. / Remember who you are. You are a star. / A mountain, that fountain in the sun. / Your heart is the velvet cave / Where birds sing.
I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.
Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.
In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.
The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.
Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.
We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.
As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.
The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.
We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
Take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors flying open
As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .
A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.
Making art is an act of faith.
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
Serious art is born from serious play.
Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further.
We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.
Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters
Balance is the key to my serenity. I attain balance by listening to my inner wisdom and to the wisdom of others. There is no situation in which I cannot find a point of balance. There is no circumstance in which I cannot find inner harmony. As I ask to be led into equilibrium and clarity, I will find that my answers come to me. I am wiser than I know, more capable of right action and attitudes than I yet believe. In every event, I seek the balance point of God's action through me.
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