“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.” 

― Julia Cameron
The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

If I can stop one Heart from breaking
by Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one Heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one Life the Aching,
Or cool one Pain,
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.’

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“I think sometimes I am not a woman,
but the light that falls on this gate, on this ground.
I am the seasons, I think sometimes,
January, May, November;
the mud, the mist, the dawn.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“There are plenty of artists who don’t have exhibitions. There’s plenty of art that’s never seen. There is this great, powerful desire to just create something. Making work that does not have a destination has its loneliness and its sadness about it. And many artists endure that for their entire lives, and it’s heroic.”

— Phyllida Barlow, Art21