Travel Companions
‘E.L. Doctorow once said that ‘writing … is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything that passes along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you.' This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard.’
Anne Lamott ‘Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life’
‘The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.’ Carl Rogers ‘On Becoming a Person’ 1961
'Technique... involves the discovery of ways to go out of ... normal cognitive bounds, and raid the inarticulate...'Seamus Heaney from 'Feeling Into Words' in 'Finders Keepers - Selected Prose'
'Be the change you want to see in the world.'Mohandas K. Gandhi
‘A connection exists between our life force – our inner core, or soul – and the essence of all beings.
Therefore as we journey inward to discover our essence or wholeness, we discover our relatedness to the outer world. The inner becomes the outer.’
Natalie Rogers PhD REAT in the article ‘Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy’ http://talentdevelop.com/articles/PEAT.html
'Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand different circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will, whatever we may think. They flower spontaneously out of demands of our natures, the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inwards as well.’
Laurence Durrell, Bitter Lemons, Towards and Eastern Landfall 1957
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.'William Blake
‘I learn by going where I have to go.’ The Waking – Theodore Roethke'To see the World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.'
William Blake from 'Auguries of Innocence'
'There is more to life than increasing its speed.'
Mohandas K. Gandhi
‘Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.’
Robert Frost
