Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
Make a little space, and get out of your own way.
I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.
Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.
The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun - the sun gets lost
And, of course, there were some times when I had writer's block and I had a hard time figuring out how to express what I wanted to express.
Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?
Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter are overwhelmingly more common, compromising about 87 percent of all stroke events.
I'm not really worried about writer's block.
Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.
The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.
The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.
I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.
My mind is in another planet behind the blocks. Sometimes I'm up in the blocks, and I'm like, 'What am I doing here?' I'm just not trying to think too much.
My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
Writer's block is your self-critic getting in the way, because creativity will just flow otherwise.
Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.
It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.
The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can't jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Any one thing can get in the way of you and your brain being comfortable and being inspired. It's the difference between a really big song and a song that never existed.
When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.
Everything you're currently against blocks you from abundance.
