Quotes About Inspiration

As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?" said Rilke.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness

All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are.

All creativity comes out of inner spaciousness.

the majority of scientists are not creative is not because they don't know how to think but because they don't know how to stop thinking!

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do then is "ride the wave.

If you are drawn to an enlightened teacher, it is because there is already enough presence in you to recognize presence in another.

I feel that the book has taken on a life and momentum of its own.

When a log that has only just started to burn is placed next to one that is burning fiercely, and after a while they are separated again, the first log will be burning with much greater intensity. After all, it is the same fire. To be such a fire is one of the functions of a spiritual teacher.

Todos los artistas verdaderos, lo sepan o no, crean desde un lugar de no-mente, de quietud interior. La mente entonces da forma a la visión o impulso creativo. Incluso los grandes científicos han dicho que sus grandes logros creativos llegaron en un momento de quietud mental.

This is why Ralph Waldo Emerson said that, "Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm."2

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. Become aware of the stillness. When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative. In any thought activity, make it a habit to go back and forth every few minutes or so between thinking and an inner kind of listening, an inner stillness. We could say: don't just think with your head, think with your whole body.

Writing is like masturbating when you have just masturbated. It's not fun. But it has to be done, or else people would not have anything to read while they sit on the toilet.

That's leadership: lead by example, lead from the front, inspire people to follow your lead.

if you're passionate about something and self-motivated, those are the key ingredients.

I realized that belief is a key ingredient in trying to do things that are difficult.

I'll just borrow confidence from a future version of myself.

What they accomplished, Alice, with instruments and weapons of stone and bone, surely that may we accomplish also.