Awaken creative,
This is for you.
Eight hours of gentle,
Relaxing music with creative quotes interjected meant to enhance your sleep,
Filling your mind,
Your heart,
Your spirit with the peace,
With the integrity and even the motivation to connect to your best,
Deepest,
Highest creative power.
The quotes come from Rick Rubin's book,
The Creative Act,
A Way of Being,
Unless Otherwise Noted.
No consciousness is needed on your part,
Let them sink into your soul as you slumber.
Trust that their resonance becomes part of yourself,
So that when you rise,
They're in your fingertips as you enter the studio.
Be quiet,
Get small.
Let the power of creative thought soak into your being.
Sleep well,
Awaken creative.
To live as an artist is a way of being in the world,
A way of perceiving,
A practice of paying attention,
Refining our sensitivity to tune in to the more subtle notes,
Looking for what draws us in and what pushes us away,
Noticing what tones arise and where they lead.
Attuned choice by attuned choice,
Your entire life is a form of self-expression.
You exist as a creative being in a creative universe,
A singular work of art.
The world's artists are not trying to make the world go round,
But forward.
Soul resides at the point where our lives intersect with the timeless,
In our love of goodness,
Our passion for beauty,
Our quest for meaning and truth.
Gary Kowalski.
The object isn't to make art,
It's to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
Robert Henry.
The artist is on a cosmic timetable,
Just like all of nature.
All artists are conduits from source.
We can improve this interface with source and radically expand the vessel's ability to receive,
Restore your childlike perceptions,
That innocent state of wonder and appreciation,
Not tethered to utility or survival.
The act of creation is an attempt to enter a mysterious realm,
A longing to transcend.
Art is a human portal to the unseen world.
It's not unusual for science to catch up to art eventually.
Nor is it unusual for art to catch up to the spiritual.
Look for what you notice,
But no one else sees.
The sensitivity that allows you to make your art is of the same vulnerability that lets you show up authentically in the world.
Sometimes disengaging is the very best way to engage.
Distractions are not procrastinations,
It's strategy in service of the work.
Create an environment,
The very one in which you are free to express what you're afraid to express.
The work reveals itself as you go.
Allow the work to grow,
To seek the direction it seeks,
To evolve in its natural state.
Let it have its own life.
Art is a reflection of the artist's inner and outer world during a period of creation.
Extending the period complicates your ability to capture that state of being.
Stay in flow,
Stay connected,
Let the pieces speak.
Art is choosing to do something skillfully.
Care about the details,
Bring all of yourself,
Make the finest work you can.
This is beyond ego,
Vanity,
Self-glorification,
Or need for approval,
It is birth.
In making art,
We're creating a mirror in which someone may see their own hidden reflection.
Turn those voices down so that you can hear the chimes of the universe,
The cosmic clock reminding you this is your time.
Each new project is another opportunity to communicate what's coming through you.
It's another chance at bat,
Another opportunity to connect,
Another page filled in the diary of your inner life.
A river of materials flow through you.
Share your works and your ideas,
They are resplendent.
The river of abundance never runs dry.
Ideas are always coming through,
Reaching out to you.
Have faith,
Artist,
More always arrives.
The essence of great art is its offering.
Creating your work is a devotional act.
Art is dealing in the imaginal realm.
We let it be.
What if the source of your creative work is always there?
Knocking patiently on the doors of your perception,
Waiting for you to unbolt the locks.
Flow with the challenges as they come and keep your mind and heart open with no baggage,
No previous story.
Stay in a neutral place and process and progress unfold.
The only thing left to do is take whatever it is that keeps you up at night and perfect it until it is an undeniable force.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Awake and creative.
With one more rising from your pillow.
Quote Into this mug of morning pour yourself warm and dark.
Your aromatic presence hugging the hand-formed divide between inside and out.
Ease from empty into full until brim level.
You rise,
A swirl,
A steamy mist rejoining its source.
Sharon Sharpe Awake and creative.
Today.
