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

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.

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

The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to our creativity, we are opening to God: good, orderly direction. As we pursue our creative fulfillment, all elements of our life move toward harmony. As we strengthen our creativity, we strengthen our connection to the Creator within. Artists love other artists. Our relationship to God is co-creative, artist to artist. It is God's will for us to live in creative abundance.

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

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem.

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

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.

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

When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

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

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