Inspirations

When I’m trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously. ~Shakti Gawain

Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell it for, or what the critics will think of it, he won’t be able to pursue original avenues. Creative achievements depend on single-minded immersion. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open. The way to healing is to learn to love and accept ourselves unconditionally. It means to embrace both our positive and negative sides with love… Healing happens when we bring everything that we find inside ourselves out into the light. ~Swami Dhyan Giten

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover the thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves. ~Albert Einstein

Don’t worry about the future. You are the one creating it. Jeshua Ben Joseph

As we saw earlier, when a difficulty comes to mind, the brain’s habitual reaction is to treat it as a real enemy, so it tends to shut down its creative “approach” systems. For some difficulties, it might be necessary to shut down playfulness, but when you are remembering the past or anticipating the future, the difficulty is playing out in our heads and not for real, so this is unnecessary. In fact, it ends up locking things down and blocking creativity: we either feel trapped and the body slumps into submission or the body gears up to fight or flee. Prof Mark Williams