The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

A related thing creatives do to avoid being creative is to involve themselves with crazymakers. Crazymakers are those personalities that create storm centers. They are often charismatic, frequently charming, highly inventive, and powerfully persuasive. And, for the creative person in their vicinity, they are enormously destructive. You know the typ

Pick those that appeal to you and those you strongly resist. Leave the more neutral ones for later. Just remember, in choosing, that we often resist what we most need.

The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do—spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

quickly notes that when the mind is focused on other, the self often comes into a far more accurate focus.

When we respond to art we are responding to its resonance in terms of our own experience.

Take your artist for a walk, the two of you. A brisk twenty-minute walk can dramatically alter consciousness.

Time Travel: Select and write out one happy piece of encouragement. Write a thank-you letter. Mail it to yourself or to the long-lost mentor.

For many creatives, the belief that they must be nice and worry about what will happen with their friends, family, mate if they dare to do what they really want to constitutes a powerful reason for nonaction.