Louise Hay Quotes

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

When I write a song with somebody else in mind, it's putting the cart before the horse. The way I write best is when I allow the song to tell me what it wants to be.

. . . everything in life responds to the song of the heart.

If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.

You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.

Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. There is something very right about simply letting yourself write. And the way to do that is to begin, to begin where you are.

I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.

The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the lanuage is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as thought the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.

Creativity means you have to disappear, you have to allow God to be.

Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the past or the future or how it's going to be received. I feel that I'm very lucky that way; I don't carry that particular anxiety around with me. I'm not anxiety-free by any means, but that happens to be one that I've been spared.

As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.

It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts. When our hearts are filled with gratitude and our minds are brimming with enthusiasm, everyone we encounter leaves our space feeling a little bit lighter than when they entered it.

My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.