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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.
Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.
All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
It's impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.
There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.
In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.
If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.
Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.
Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.
Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.
Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.
Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.
Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.
The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.
Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.
I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.
Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.
We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.
People get so focused on the big dream that they forget about the process.
Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.
Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.
Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.
The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.
What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion?
Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
We must learn to let the flow manifest itself where it will.....not where we will it.
If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?
All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.
We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.