Our internal artist is always our creative child.
The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
My heart holds the world in tender awe.
A working artist is a playing artist.
Soul is not about function; it’s about beauty, form, and memory.
When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.
Some people find it easier to picture the stream of inspiration as being like radio waves of all sorts being broadcast at all times. With practice, we learn to hear the desired frequency on request. We tune in to the frequency we want.
As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.
Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid’s pleasures.
We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express...
When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that.
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.
Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.
It’s impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
Our modern ideas of ‘functioning’ through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.
You are either losing your mind – or gaining your soul.
We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.
Many of us believe that ‘real artists’ do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.
We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.