Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

I would say that artists have to be good lovers.

That's the most important thing in art: to be aware, pay attention, be inspired - but it should come ultimately from you.

The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

In meditation, whatever happens is bound to be expressed in creativity.

This is my experience of Oprah Winfrey - she makes decisions as frequently as she can to contribute with consciousness, with awareness, with love. I know - this is the source of her joy, her vitality, her unending creativity and her connection to people.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

I love being creative in all forms.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.