People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.
When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.
When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.
By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.
Our internal artist is always our creative child.
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.
The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.
When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that
Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.
Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.
As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.
By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.
It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.
we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.
Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.
I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?" . . . Whenever I am willing to ask "What is necessary next?" I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.
Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.
A working artist is a playing artist.
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