Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.
Take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors flying open.
It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.
It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.
It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.
Money cannot fill an empty soul.
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.
Accept the fact that you’re an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.
We are not accustomed to thinking that God’s will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.
Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.
So much of an artist’s career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.
It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.
When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness.
Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.
To write is to right things. A path will emerge.
You are asked to keep a ledger – a small notebook will do – of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.
There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.
It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.