Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality...
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.
Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn’t matter. Relying on that force does.
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.
Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.
I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.
A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.
I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.
Don’t try to ‘fix’ the child’s boredom – rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.
When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about.
Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively.
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.
In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
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.