“I have learned that the stuff that causes me anxiety, the stuff I instinctively veer away from, is usually a road map to where my own creative growth can be found. So I consciously head toward the places that make me uncomfortable.” FoundCausesStuffGrowthMy OwnCreativeAnxietyUncomfortableMapsI Have LearnedRoad Maps Author:Merrill Markoe
“I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in my head. The top part [of my artwork] is you letting go and floating. You become part of the air and you've tapped into the heartbeat of the universe. I guess that's what people do when they meditate.” PeopleHeartWarSometimesUniverseMy OwnAirConflictLetting GoAnxietyCivil WarFloatingHeartbeatArtwork Author:Ali Banisadr
“God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many of what could have been, should have been, the happiest days of my life, and more than a few times in my life I have been raised from such ruins, which is another way of saying that more than a few times in my life I have been raised from death - death of the spirit anyway, death of the heart - by the healing power that Jesus calls us both to heal with and to be healed by.” KnowsWayShouldHeartHas BeensHappensSpiritJesusMy OwnHealingParticularAnxietyShould HaveRaisedCastsHealRuinsDemonRuinedFloatingAnother WayCould Have BeenDoomGod KnowsHealedNeuroticShould Have Been Author:Frederick Buechner
“If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.” IfsThinkingTryingForceMy OwnConditionsAnxietyMajorsIncludingContemporaryBewildermentMagical Thinking Author:Mike Young