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.
There will be many times when we won’t look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.
Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
We go into parenting, and we discover that we don’t have the answers. We are at a loss.
We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.
We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.
Art is born in attention.
Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic – love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You’re faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.