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When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express ...

People get so focused on the big dream that they forget about the process.

The trick is to metabolize pain as energy. Learn, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality ...

The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.

Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.

All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.

Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core.

We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Leap, and the net appears.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

Often God shuts a door in our face, And then subsequently opens the door through which we need to go. CATHERINE MARSHALL

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.

Money cannot fill an empty soul.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

When I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

Help your brother's boat across, and lo! your own has reached the shore. HINDU PROVERB

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

The tools of 'The Prosperous Heart' help people to embrace the life that they actually have, where they often find that they already have 'enough.'

Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.

I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

It's not the answer that enlightens, but the question. EUGENE IONESCO

When people do not want to see something, they get mad at the one who shows them.

The myth that we must have "time" - more time - in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have.

I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.

Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.

To write is to right things. A path will emerge.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Making art is an act of faith.

Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, [and] there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. PETER DRUCKER

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

You are either losing your mind
or gaining your soul.

Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.

Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

My heart is a tiny town welcoming those who enter.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

Live with a quiet expectation of good.

When we move out of faith into the act ofJ creation, the universe is able to advance.

It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.

I am the running brook that soothes your soul.

the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, "unutterably alone.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning.

My mother set us to an activity and let us be.

I am due at the page.

My heart holds the world in tender awe.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.

Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors flying open

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

There is no emergency. My divine timing is perfect and serves you well. Trust my sense of right action. Your successful unfolding is my great joy.

When the mind becomes quiet, you feel nourished. SWAMI CHIDVILASANANDA

Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, 'You're enough.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.

I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.

Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.

You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness.

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. ROBIN NORWOOD

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength

You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.

The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

Writing is an act of cherishing ... It is an act of love.

As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.