Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.
Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.
If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we ‘should,’ our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.
In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
Serious art is born from serious play.
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.
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.
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.
The reward for attention is always healing.
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.
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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.
Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth.
The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
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.
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don’t.
You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.