CREATE YOUR DREAMS
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
-
Alan Alda
(b.1936); actor, screenwriter, director
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do something I can do.
- Helen Keller, from The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition (Modern Library Classics)
The angel doesn’t sit on your shoulder unless the pencil’s in your hand.
- Mary Oliver
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
- Kurt Vonnegut
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls.
- Merce Cunningham
You were born with wings/why prefer to crawl through life?
- Rumi
Once you perceive that you have choices, you don’t need to know too much about Jesus and Krishna, Buddha and Allah and Rama. You have the choice to live our own light. Dance with it. Listen to it and follow it.
- Carlos Santana
So many people work so hard, to achieve, attain, accumulate and cherish their fortunes. How many of us blissfully fill our days and nights being the Divine expression we are? This is the meaning of life. It is to be. As a result, all of your creations are a natural outflow from the Divine within your being. This is the joy of life.
- Barbara Rose
The divine manifestation is ubiquitous,
Only our eyes are not open to it.
Awe is what moves us forward.
Live from your own center.
The divine lives within you.
The separateness apparent in the world is secondary.
Beyond the world of opposites is an unseen,
but experienced, unity and identity in us all.
Today the planet is the only proper “in group.”
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
You must return with the bliss and integrate it.
The return is seeing the radiance is everywhere.
The world is a match for us.
We are a match for the world.
The spirit is the bouquet of nature.
Sanctify the place you are in.
Follow your bliss. . . .
- compiled from the writings of Joseph Campbell
I Hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics - each one singing his, as it should be blithe and strong;
The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench - the hatter singing as he stands;
The delicious singing of the mother or of the young wife at work...
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs...
I bestow upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts of the universe.
- Walt Whitman, The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
Inspiration comes from love.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org
This world is a mountain and our actions send forth melodies -- that echo right back to us with the melodies we sent forth!
- Rumi, The Masnavi, Book One (Oxford World's Classics) (Bk. 1)