“What if you can't help but judge life negatively? What if yesterday felt awful, today feels awful, and tomorrow is likely to… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.” — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“How you conceptualize meaning matters. If you hold that it is outside of yourself and must be tracked down, you have one… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“With success came a new, deeper doubt that any activity, even his cherished writing, could make life mean anything.” — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert,… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“To put it aphoristically, no experience can feel meaningful to a nihilist—that is, to someone who has already decided that life is… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“The only time I can get the thoughts to stop is when I get lost in something very creative and puzzle-like—and then… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“First and foremost, she recognizes that life has no single or ultimate meaning. Life only has human meanings of the following sort:… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“Both the biological and psychological approaches are suspect since both posit an unreal world, completely at odds with human experience, in which… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“Stress causes the greatest number of doctors' visits annually. Yet we haven't noticed well enough that the issue is not just what… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“We see how boredom arises as a special, terrible problem for smart people. A smart person has a lively brain; that brain… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“How can a person brim over with life energy and big plans one moment and feel suicidal the next? She can cycle… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“What if you can't help but judge life negatively? What if yesterday felt awful, today feels awful, and tomorrow is likely to feel awful… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.” — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“How you conceptualize meaning matters. If you hold that it is outside of yourself and must be tracked down, you have one idea of… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
