The reward for attention is always healing.
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.
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.
You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.
Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance – often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.
All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.
As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.
Writing is like breathing, it’s possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.
The Artist’s Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.
Expect the universe to support your dream. It will.
When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and ‘good, orderly direction’ to enter.